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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Cousins, Norman

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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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.