Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about 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

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Voltaire

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Bach, Richard

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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