Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Craik, Dinah Mulock

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Foreman, George

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Brown, Les

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Belief creates the actual fact.