Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Thomas, Isiah

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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 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.

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

Kafka, Franz

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Caesar, Julius

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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 in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Brown, Les

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Leo Rosten

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.