Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Noah Porter

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Brown, Les

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Leo Rosten

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Ditka, Mike

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