Motivational Quotes

Belief

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

- Carroll, Lewis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Valvano, Jim

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Buffett, Warren

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Borne, Ludwig

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Frank Lloyd Wright