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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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 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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

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

Brown, Les

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow