Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Bach, Richard

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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.

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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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

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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

John Lilly

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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