Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

Froude, James A.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Voltaire

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

Ditka, Mike

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Cousins, Norman

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, French

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

Rostand, Jean

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.