Motivational Quotes

Belief

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Belief

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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.

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

Proverb, French

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Caesar, Julius

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Ovid

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Froude, James A.

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

James, William