Motivational Quotes

Belief

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Kafka, Franz

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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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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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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Voltaire

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

Gifford, Frank

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cousins, Norman

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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 a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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