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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Wieder, Marcia

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Hellman, Lillian

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Foreman, George

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Noah Porter

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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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 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

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov