Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Belief

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mencken, H. L.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Hare, David

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Noah Porter

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

James, William

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Proverb, French

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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

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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's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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