Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

James, William

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

Gerry Spence

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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.