Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Proverb, French

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Gomez, Foka

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Brown, Les

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy