Motivational Quotes

Belief

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Waitley, Denis

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ovid

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

Foreman, George

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Bach, Richard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

James, William

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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

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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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 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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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.

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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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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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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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