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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ditka, Mike

The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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

Noah Porter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Gerry Spence

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

Proverb, French

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Rostand, Jean

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ford, Henry

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

John Lilly

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

Epictetus

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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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