Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Cousins, Norman

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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.

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

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

Proverb, French

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

James, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Noah Porter

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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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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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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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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brown, Les

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin