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 that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

James, William

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gomez, Foka

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Gerry Spence

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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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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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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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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Epictetus

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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