Motivational Quotes

Belief

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

- Hellman, Lillian

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

John Lilly

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Brown, Les

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Foreman, George