Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Belief

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Epictetus

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

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

John Lilly

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

James, William

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

Froude, James A.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Leo Rosten

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Seligan, Martin

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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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Lilly, John C.

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Foreman, George

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

Hare, David

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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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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von