Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Proverb, French

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

Brown, Les

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Noah Porter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Cousins, Norman

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Froude, James A.

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Epictetus

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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.