Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Thomas, Isiah

Best Quotes about Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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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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

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Nizer, Louis

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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 conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Kafka, Franz

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine