Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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.

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, French

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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.

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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 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.