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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

John Lilly

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Froude, James A.

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Nizer, Louis

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hare, David

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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

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Peale, Norman Vincent