Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Laurence J. Peter

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

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

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ford, Henry

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

Foreman, George

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

John Lilly

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hellman, Lillian

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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 have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Leo Rosten

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

Froude, James 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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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