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

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

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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

Jenkins, David

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Thomas, Isiah

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Valery, Paul

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lewis Carroll