Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Borne, Ludwig

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.

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

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Voltaire

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Valvano, Jim

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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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

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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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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