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

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Jenkins, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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.

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