Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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.

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

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Noah Porter

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Anthony, Dr. 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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Ovid

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, French

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Hare, David

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

Kafka, Franz

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Carlyle, Thomas