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

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.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nizer, Louis

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hare, David

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Foreman, George

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

Epictetus

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

Valvano, Jim

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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