Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gifford, Frank

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lippmann, Walter

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Epictetus

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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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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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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 practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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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.

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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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