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

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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 so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

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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 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

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Foreman, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Borne, Ludwig

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Ovid

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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 in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.