Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Belief

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Palmer, Arnold

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Ditka, Mike

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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 won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Valery, Paul

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Foreman, George

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Ford, Henry

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Ovid

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Man is what he believes.