Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Froude, James A.

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

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Brown, Les

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kafka, Franz

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

James, William

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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

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Bach, Richard

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

Leo Rosten

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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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

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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