Motivational Quotes

Belief

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.