Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Hare, David

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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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 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

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Miller, Henry

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Valvano, Jim

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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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.