Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Bartholomew, Saint

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Waitley, Denis

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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

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

Ovid

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Ford, Henry

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

Miller, Henry

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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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