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

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bach, Richard

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Epictetus

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

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

Voltaire

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor