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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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.

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

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

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.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Brown, Les

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 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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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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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Nizer, Louis

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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 abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Virkkala, Timothy