Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

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

Ditka, Mike

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Gerry Spence

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Mill, John Stuart