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

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Swift, Jonathan

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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

Barnum, P.T.

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

John Lilly

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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 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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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We are what we believe we are