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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Jenkins, David

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Bach, Richard

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov