Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hill, Napoleon

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Noah Porter

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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.

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Bach, Richard

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

Foreman, George

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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

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Brown, Les

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rostand, Jean

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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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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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.