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

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

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

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

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

Hare, David

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

Miller, Henry

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

James, William

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Noah Porter

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Jenkins, David

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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