Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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.

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

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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Voltaire

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

Waitley, Denis

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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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

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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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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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 .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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.

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

Noah Porter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Saying, Traditional