Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Jenkins, David

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

Palmer, Arnold

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Laurence J. Peter

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Ovid

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Leo Rosten

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