Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hare, David

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Valery, Paul

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ovid

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

Swift, Jonathan

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Miller, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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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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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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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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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.

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand