Motivational Quotes

Belief

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

- Valvano, Jim

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nizer, Louis

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Froude, James A.

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Ditka, Mike

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gomez, Foka

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cousins, Norman