Motivational Quotes

Belief

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

- Jenkins, David

Best Quotes about Belief

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Hare, David

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Barker, Joel A.

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Voltaire

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, French

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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.

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lilly, John C.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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.