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

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.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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

Saying, Traditional

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Palmer, Arnold

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Ditka, Mike

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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

James, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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 beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Oscar Wilde

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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