Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

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

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Barker, Joel A.

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Hare, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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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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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.

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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 you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Ditka, Mike

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian