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

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Ovid

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

Foreman, George

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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