Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Ovid

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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

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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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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

James, William

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

Hare, David

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Froude, James A.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Noah Porter

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

Kafka, Franz

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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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.