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

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Proverb, French

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Voltaire

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

Hare, David

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Cousins, Norman

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.