Motivational Quotes

Belief

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Saying, Traditional

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

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

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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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

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

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

James, William

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

Hare, David

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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

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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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Leo Rosten

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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