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

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

Ovid

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Saying, Traditional

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

25.

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

29.

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Ditka, Mike

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

38.

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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas