Motivational Quotes

Belief

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

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

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Les

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Leo Rosten

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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 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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle