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

Waitley, Denis

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Russell, Bertrand

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Foreman, George

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Hodges, H. A.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Epictetus

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

Stein, Ben

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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Leo Rosten

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lewis Carroll