Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hodges, H. A.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lilly, John C.

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

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Noah Porter

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

Rostand, Jean

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.

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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ovid

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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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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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Foreman, George

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.