Motivational Quotes

Belief

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

- Seligan, Martin

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gomez, Foka

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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

Rostand, Jean

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Epictetus

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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