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

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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.

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

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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 must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

John Lilly

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Thomas, Isiah

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Ovid

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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