Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hare, David

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

11.

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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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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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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.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Gifford, Frank

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

James, William

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Noah Porter

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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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.

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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