Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Leo Rosten

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Hare, David

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis