Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gomez, Foka

Best Quotes about Belief

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Brown, Les

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Cousins, Norman

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valery, Paul

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ovid

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert