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

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.

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

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

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

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

Voltaire

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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 how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

Miller, Henry

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kafka, Franz

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Cousins, Norman

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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 would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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

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

Gifford, Frank

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