Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gifford, Frank

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Swift, Jonathan

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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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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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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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Valvano, Jim

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Foreman, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Laurence J. Peter

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Voltaire

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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