Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

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

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Epictetus

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

Valery, Paul

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

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Froude, James A.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

John Lilly

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov