Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Kafka, Franz

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Noah Porter

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

Epictetus

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Voltaire

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Lewis Carroll

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Rostand, Jean