Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Wilde, Oscar

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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.

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

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.

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Voltaire

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

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Brown, Les

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

Gomez, Foka

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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

Leo Rosten

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Bach, Richard

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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