Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Gomez, Foka

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Virkkala, Timothy

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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

Seligan, Martin

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Lippmann, Walter

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Stein, Ben

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis Carroll