Motivational Quotes

Belief

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

- Cordero Jr., Angel

Best Quotes about Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Foreman, George

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Brown, Les

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Noah Porter

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

Bach, Richard

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.