Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Gerry Spence

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

James, William

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

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb, French

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lewis Carroll

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Foreman, George

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

Leo Rosten

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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De