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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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

Noah Porter

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

40.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

James, William

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ovid

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

Froude, James A.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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