Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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.

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

Voltaire

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Froude, James A.

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

Epictetus

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, 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

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

John Lilly

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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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