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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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.

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bach, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

John Lilly

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

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

Proverb, French

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Voltaire

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Leo Rosten

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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

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

Ovid

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas