Motivational Quotes

Belief

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

- Anthony, Dr. Robert

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Foreman, George

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Nizer, Louis

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Epictetus

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Bach, Richard

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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'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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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Leo Rosten

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

James, William

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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