Motivational Quotes

Belief

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Belief

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Gomez, Foka

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

10.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

11.

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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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 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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

16.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rostand, Jean

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Brown, Les

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

Foreman, George

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lilly, John C.

30.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

31.

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

32.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Palmer, Arnold

34.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.