Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Ovid

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Waitley, Denis

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

31.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Proverb, French

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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