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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Mencken, H. L.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Epictetus

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

Hare, David

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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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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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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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Lilly, John C.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

James, William

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Noah Porter

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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