Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Foreman, George

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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.

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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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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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Caesar, Julius

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Nizer, Louis

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius