Motivational Quotes

Belief

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

- Marshall, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Rostand, Jean

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Valery, Paul

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Ovid

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

Foreman, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Stein, Ben

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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