Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Hare, David

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

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

James, William

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Foreman, George

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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 you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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