Motivational Quotes

Belief

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

- Gutzkow

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Rostand, Jean

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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.

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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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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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

John Lilly

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

Russell, Bertrand