Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

John Lilly

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Caesar, Julius

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hare, David

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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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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Leo Rosten

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Noah Porter

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

Nizer, Louis

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.