Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lilly, John C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Brown, Les

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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

Lewis Carroll

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Seligan, Martin

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Ovid

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Gerry Spence

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.