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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gomez, Foka

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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.

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

Ovid

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Foreman, George

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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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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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