Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Stein, Ben

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Cousins, Norman

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

James, William

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

Ford, Henry