Motivational Quotes

Belief

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Gerry Spence

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Gifford, Frank

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Hare, David

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Hodges, H. A.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Caesar, Julius

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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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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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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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

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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