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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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.

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Nizer, Louis

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

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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 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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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

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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 a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

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

John Lilly

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Proverb, French

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.