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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hare, David

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

Proverb, French

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

Saying, Traditional

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

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

10.

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

11.

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

Ditka, Mike

12.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

13.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

James, William

15.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

16.

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

Froude, James A.

17.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

18.

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

Ross, Ruth

19.

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.

20.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

22.

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

23.

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

24.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

25.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

28.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

31.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

32.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

33.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Jenkins, David

35.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

36.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

Rostand, Jean

41.

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.

42.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

45.

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

Mill, John Stuart

46.

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

47.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

50.

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