Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

Barnum, P.T.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Palmer, Arnold

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Voltaire

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Hare, David

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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