Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Ditka, Mike

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.

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Wieder, Marcia

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Leo Rosten

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

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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.

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Bach, Richard

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Cousins, Norman

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You must see first before you can believe.