Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Gifford, Frank

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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.

11.

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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Hare, David

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Buckle, George Earle

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