Motivational Quotes

Belief

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil