Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ovid

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

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

Valvano, Jim

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Nizer, Louis

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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 what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Thomas, Isiah