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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lewis Carroll

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Russell, Bertrand

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Foreman, George

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Brown, Les

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

Noah Porter