Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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

James, William

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

Bach, Richard

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.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Foreman, George

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Proverb, French

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gerry Spence

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

Voltaire

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

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

Ovid

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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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Miller, Henry