Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Robinson, Sugar Ray

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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.

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.

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Kafka, Franz

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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.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Gerry Spence

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bach, Richard

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Ovid

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