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

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Swift, Jonathan

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bartholomew, Saint

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Ovid

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

James, William

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor