Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Virkkala, Timothy

3.

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.

4.

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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Epictetus

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Foreman, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Leo Rosten

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

29.

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

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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

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Rostand, Jean

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

41.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Noah Porter

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg