Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, French

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

Nizer, Louis

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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

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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 in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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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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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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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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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 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 is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

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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