Motivational Quotes

Belief

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

John Lilly

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Valvano, Jim

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

James, William

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Valery, Paul

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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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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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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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