Motivational Quotes

Belief

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Cousins, Norman

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Noah Porter

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

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hodges, H. A.

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brown, Les

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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 Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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

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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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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Valery, Paul