Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Hellman, Lillian

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

10.

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

11.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

12.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

15.

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

Gomez, Foka

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ovid

20.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Barker, Joel A.

25.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

32.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

38.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

39.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

43.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Proverb, French

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

John Lilly

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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