Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

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

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.

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

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gerry Spence

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Mencken, H. L.

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Proverb, French

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

Leo Rosten

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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.

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Barton, Bruce

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

John Lilly

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Voltaire

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Brown, Les

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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