Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Froude, James A.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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.

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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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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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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Epictetus

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

Waitley, Denis

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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