Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Saying, Traditional

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Hare, David

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Ching Ning Chu

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

James, William

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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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