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

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Buffett, Warren

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas, Isiah

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Russell, Bertrand

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bach, Richard

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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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 lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Hare, David

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

James, William

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Foreman, George

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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 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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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Lewis Carroll