Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Ovid

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Epictetus

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

John Lilly

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

James, William

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hare, David

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

Gerry Spence

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

Barker, Joel A.

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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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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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Lippmann, Walter