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

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Brown, Les

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Noah Porter

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Hodges, H. A.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.