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

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Ross, Ruth

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

James, William

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Brown, Les

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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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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 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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Lilly, John C.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hare, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry