Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Oscar Wilde

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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.

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Noah Porter

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.