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

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Barnum, P.T.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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.

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

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Jenkins, David

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.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Leo Rosten

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Noah Porter