Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Bach, Richard

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Kafka, Franz

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Brown, Les

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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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 we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lewis Carroll

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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.

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine