Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Virkkala, Timothy

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Froude, James A.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Thomas, Isiah

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Caesar, Julius

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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

Voltaire

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Lewis Carroll

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, French

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.