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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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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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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Brown, Les

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Hare, David

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

James, William

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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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Froude, James A.

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

Nizer, Louis

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.