Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Miller, Henry

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ovid

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

John Lilly

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Noah Porter

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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.

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

Leo Rosten

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Bach, Richard

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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