Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Valvano, Jim

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Epictetus

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nizer, Louis

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Ovid

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

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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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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

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Oscar Wilde

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel 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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.