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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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.

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

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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 believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

James, William

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hodges, H. A.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ovid

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

Cousins, Norman

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Noah Porter

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

Mill, John Stuart