Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Valery, Paul

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

Mill, John Stuart

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Epictetus

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Oscar Wilde

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

James, William

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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

Bach, Richard