Motivational Quotes

Belief

They can conquer who believe they can.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

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

Voltaire

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Oscar Wilde

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Froude, James A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Valery, Paul

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

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence