Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Valery, Paul

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hare, David

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

Virkkala, Timothy

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Epictetus

11.

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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Brown, Les

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

Ditka, Mike

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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 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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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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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ovid

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

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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 don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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