Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Gerry Spence

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

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.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Proverb, French

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

28.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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 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.

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