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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Voltaire

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.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

James, William

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Brown, Les

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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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

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

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Oscar Wilde

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Ching Ning Chu

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Ovid

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.