Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Nizer, Louis

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Voltaire

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

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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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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.

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Borne, Ludwig

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly