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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ditka, Mike

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lewis Carroll

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bach, Richard

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.