Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Chesterfield, Lord

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

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

James, William

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Leo Rosten

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Foreman, George

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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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Ovid

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg