Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men freely believe that which they desire.

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Seligan, Martin

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Foreman, George

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

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

17.

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

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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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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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Brown, Les

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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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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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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