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 a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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

Proverb, French

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

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Voltaire

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

Leo Rosten

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

John Lilly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Cousins, Norman

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Laurence J. Peter

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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We are what we believe we are