Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Belief

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Epictetus

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

Foreman, George

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

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.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lewis Carroll

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Voltaire

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

Palmer, Arnold

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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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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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Hare, David