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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Hare, David

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Voltaire

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Valery, Paul

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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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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.

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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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Richard

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo