Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Valvano, Jim

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lewis Carroll

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Stein, Ben

17.

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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Barker, Joel A.