Motivational Quotes

Belief

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Valery, Paul

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.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

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

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Ovid

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brown, Les

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Gerry Spence

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

Epictetus

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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

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

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rostand, Jean