Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seligan, Martin

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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 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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Foreman, George

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nizer, Louis

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Leo Rosten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Lewis Carroll

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Froude, James A.

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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.