Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Belief

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Borne, Ludwig

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Barnum, P.T.

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Bach, Richard

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Nizer, Louis

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Lilly, John C.

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Epictetus

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.