Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

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Best Quotes about Belief

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

Bach, Richard

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Miller, Henry

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Cousins, Norman

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Ditka, Mike

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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