Motivational Quotes

Belief

Loving is half of believing.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

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

James, William

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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 you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

John Lilly

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

Proverb, French

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

Valery, Paul

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

Hodges, H. A.

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von