Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Belief

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Foreman, George

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Froude, James A.

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

James, William

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You must see first before you can believe.