Motivational Quotes

Belief

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Froude, James A.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Seligan, Martin

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Hare, David

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Gifford, Frank

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Caesar, Julius

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Leo Rosten

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Proverb, French

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

Mill, John Stuart

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Bach, Richard

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.