Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Ross, Ruth

Best Quotes about Belief

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Ford, Henry

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

James, William

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Noah Porter

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Kafka, Franz

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Ovid

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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 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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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