Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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

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

Hare, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Froude, James A.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ovid

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Foreman, George

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike