Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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.

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.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Borne, Ludwig

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

James, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Bach, Richard

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barnum, P.T.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.