Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Noah Porter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Gerry Spence

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

James, William

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

Leo Rosten

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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

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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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Miller, Henry

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma