Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Valvano, Jim

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Epictetus

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

Thomas, Isiah

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

James, William

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Cousins, Norman

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert