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

Wieder, Marcia

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Foreman, George

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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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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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Epictetus

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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.

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible