Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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.

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.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Caesar, Julius

10.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

11.

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.

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

14.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

15.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

16.

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

17.

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

James, William

18.

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

19.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

20.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

22.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

23.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

24.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

25.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Miller, Henry

29.

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

Cousins, Norman

30.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

31.

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

Kafka, Franz

32.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

33.

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

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

Mill, John Stuart

35.

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

36.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

37.

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

Gomez, Foka

38.

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

Ditka, Mike

39.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

40.

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

42.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Hare, David

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

49.

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

50.

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

Gerry Spence