Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

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

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Miller, Henry

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

James, William

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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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