Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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.

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

Bach, Richard

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Epictetus

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Hare, David

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

Leo Rosten

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Proverb, French

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rostand, Jean

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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 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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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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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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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.