Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bach, Richard

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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 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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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