Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Lilly

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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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.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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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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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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Rostand, Jean

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Froude, James A.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

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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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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 you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard