Motivational Quotes

Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Gomez, Foka

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Ovid

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hare, David

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, French

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert