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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

James, William

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.

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

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Oscar Wilde

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Epictetus

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

Ford, Henry

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

Stein, Ben

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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