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

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Jenkins, David

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

Voltaire

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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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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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Peale, Norman Vincent