Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Proverb, French

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

Virkkala, Timothy

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Epictetus

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Kafka, Franz

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

James, William

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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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