Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

31.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Brown, Les

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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.