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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

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.

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Saying, Traditional

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Ovid

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Gifford, Frank

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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