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

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

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Bartholomew, Saint

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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 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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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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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ovid

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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.