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

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Fuller, Thomas

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lippmann, Walter

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.

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

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Waitley, Denis

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Foreman, George

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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.

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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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