Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

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

Froude, James A.

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

James, William

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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 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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

40.

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 a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

43.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Cousins, Norman

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Valery, Paul