Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

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Best Quotes about Belief

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

Bach, Richard

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Caesar, Julius

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Noah Porter

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

Ovid