Motivational Quotes

Belief

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

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

Valvano, Jim

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

James, William

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Waitley, Denis

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barnum, P.T.

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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