Motivational Quotes

Belief

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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.

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Nizer, Louis