Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

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

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.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Borne, Ludwig

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Lewis Carroll

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Voltaire

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Bach, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

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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.