Motivational Quotes

Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Belief

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Valvano, Jim

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ovid

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Waitley, Denis

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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