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

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Dickinson, Emily

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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

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

Foreman, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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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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

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hare, David

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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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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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

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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