Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

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.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Lilly, John C.

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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 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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Ditka, Mike

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Miller, Henry

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.