Motivational Quotes

Belief

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Cousins, Norman

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Leo Rosten

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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 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 believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Proverb, French

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Waitley, Denis

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gifford, Frank

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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