Motivational Quotes

Belief

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Cousins, Norman

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Stein, Ben

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Leo Rosten

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

James, William

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb, French

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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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

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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.