Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Belief

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Cousins, Norman

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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

Rostand, Jean

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

Miller, Henry

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Thomas, Isiah

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Leo Rosten

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hare, David

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

Noah Porter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gifford, Frank