Motivational Quotes

Belief

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Belief

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Jenkins, David

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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 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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Noah Porter

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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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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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

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Brown, Les

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lichtenberg, Georg 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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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .