Motivational Quotes

Belief

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Belief

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Brown, Les

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Noah Porter

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Epictetus

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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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 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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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 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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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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 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

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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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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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