Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ditka, Mike

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.

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

Lilly, John C.

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

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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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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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Brown, Les

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Foreman, George

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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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