Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, French

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.

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

Noah Porter

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

Froude, James A.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Foreman, George

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Bach, Richard

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Gerry Spence

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Leo Rosten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laurence J. Peter

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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