Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Leo Rosten

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.

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gerry Spence

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

Hare, David

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

Foreman, George

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

Noah Porter

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Rostand, Jean

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Froude, James A.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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 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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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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