Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Belief

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

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

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Leo Rosten

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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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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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Epictetus

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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