Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hodges, H. A.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bartholomew, Saint

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nizer, Louis

11.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ovid

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Voltaire

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

James, William

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

Leo Rosten

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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.