Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

John Lilly

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gomez, Foka

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Foreman, George

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

Bach, Richard

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gifford, Frank

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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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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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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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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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 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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Proverb, French

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.