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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

John Lilly

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Nizer, Louis

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Miller, Henry

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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.

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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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

Brown, Les

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov