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

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Miller, Henry

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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 in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William