Motivational Quotes

Belief

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

- Cordero Jr., Angel

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

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.

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Ditka, Mike

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

James, William

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Waitley, Denis

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Oscar Wilde

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Lewis Carroll

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ovid

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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.