Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

10.

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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Foreman, George

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Ovid

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus