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

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Froude, James A.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Gifford, Frank

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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 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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Epictetus

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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