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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Lilly, John C.

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

15.

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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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 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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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Nizer, Louis

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Epictetus

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