Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

James, William

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

Noah Porter

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gomez, Foka

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, French

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.