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

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

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.

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

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

John Lilly

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Miller, Henry

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Russell, Bertrand

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Schwartz, David J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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

Froude, James A.

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Epictetus

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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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.