Motivational Quotes

Belief

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

- Phelps, William Lyon

Best Quotes about Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Nizer, Louis

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Voltaire

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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

Lilly, John C.

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Ovid

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Leo Rosten

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Gerry Spence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry