Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ovid

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.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Giacomini, Lynwood 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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Noah Porter

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

Gerry Spence

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Froude, James A.

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

Foreman, George

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

Hare, David

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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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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nizer, Louis

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

James, William

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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 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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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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickinson, Emily