Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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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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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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 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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Ovid

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Schwartz, David J.

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Froude, James A.

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Noah Porter

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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