Motivational Quotes

Belief

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Noah Porter

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Ditka, Mike

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Brown, Les

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

James, William

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Valery, Paul

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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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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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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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 old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerry Spence

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.