Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Proverb, French

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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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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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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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 people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Laurence J. Peter

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Oscar Wilde

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Buffett, Warren

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Dyer, Wayne

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

James, William

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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.

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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