Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- John Lilly

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Valery, Paul

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

Voltaire

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Gifford, Frank

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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

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Brown, Les

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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.

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin