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

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

Barnum, P.T.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

James, William

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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 believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Froude, James A.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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