Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

Leo Rosten

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Gomez, Foka

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

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Foreman, George

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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.