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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Palmer, Arnold

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Ditka, Mike

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Hare, David

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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.