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

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Bach, Richard

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Hare, David

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

Stein, Ben

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow