Motivational Quotes

Belief

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Kafka, Franz

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Chesterfield, Lord

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Nizer, Louis

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Bach, Richard

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

John Lilly

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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.