Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Laurence J. Peter

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Brown, Les

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas