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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Foreman, George

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Noah Porter

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Swift, Jonathan

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Mencken, H. L.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Gerry Spence

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

James, William

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

Ovid

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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