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 must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

John Lilly

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Valery, Paul

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von