Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Palmer, Arnold

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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 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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Epictetus

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Nizer, Louis

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Gomez, Foka

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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 one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

James, William

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

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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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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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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