Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

John Lilly

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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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 battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Noah Porter

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Gerry Spence

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Leo Rosten

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hellman, Lillian