Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

- Julius Caesar

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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

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

Lewis Carroll

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Foreman, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Brown, Les

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valvano, Jim

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De