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

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

Proverb, French

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Stein, Ben

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Lewis Carroll

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Ovid

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Saying, Traditional

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Valery, Paul

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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

34.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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