Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nizer, Louis

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Foreman, George

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Caesar, Julius

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Bach, Richard

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Leo Rosten

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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.