Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

- Gifford, Frank

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bach, Richard

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

Swift, Jonathan

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.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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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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

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

Gomez, Foka

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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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Brown, Les

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Voltaire

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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