Motivational Quotes

Belief

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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 lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hare, David

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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Rostand, Jean

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil