Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Leo Rosten

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

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

Hare, David

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

Gifford, Frank

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Ovid

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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