Motivational Quotes

Belief

You'll see it when you believe it.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Epictetus

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Noah Porter

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Barker, Joel A.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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 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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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