Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Robinson, Sugar Ray

Best Quotes about Belief

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

John Lilly

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Ross, Ruth

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Froude, James A.

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Foreman, George

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

Stein, Ben

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hare, David

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Ovid

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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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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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Bach, Richard

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.