Motivational Quotes

Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Belief

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas, Isiah

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Froude, James A.

27.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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.

29.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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.

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Epictetus

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka