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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

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

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Wieder, Marcia

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.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Miller, Henry

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mencken, H. L.

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Hodges, H. A.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine