Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hare, David

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.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

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

Gifford, Frank

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Miller, Henry

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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

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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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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 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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Froude, James A.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fuller, 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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.