Inspirations

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

- James Allen

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.

- Wally Amos

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

- Doctor Robert Anthony

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.

- Saint Augustine

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

- Richard Bach

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

- Walter Bagehot

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

- Joel A Barker

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

- Sir James M Barrie

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

- Saint Bartholomew

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

- Bruce Barton

Everything is possible for him who believes.

- Bible

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

- Claude M Bristol

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

- Les Brown

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

- Les Brown

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

- Warren Buffett

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

- John Burroughs

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

- Samuel Butler

Men freely believe that which they desire.

- Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish.

- Julius Caesar

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

- Julius Caesar

We are what we believe we are

- Benjamin N Cardozo

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.

- Curtis Carlson

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Lord Chesterfield

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

- Ching Ning Chu

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

- Norman Cousins

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.

- Richard M DeVos

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

- Mike Ditka

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

- Wayne Dyer

You'll see it when you believe it.

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul, unbelief, in denying them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Epictetus

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.

- Patrick Ewing

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

- Henry Ford

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

- George Foreman

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

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

- James A Froude

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Lynwood L Giacomini

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

- Frank Gifford

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

- Foka Gomez

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

- Napoleon Hill

You must see first before you can believe.

- Raymond Holliwell

Loving is half of believing.

- Victor Hugo

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

- William James

Belief creates the actual fact.

- William James

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

- William James

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- Soren Kierkegaard

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

- Michael Korda

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.

- Martin Lawrence

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

- John C Lilly

If you think you can do it, you can.

- Eric Lindros

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

- Martin Luther

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.

- Peter Marshall

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

- Everett D Martin

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

- Peter Mcwilliams

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

- John Stuart Mill

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

- Henry Miller

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

- Olin Miller

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

- Alfred A Montapert

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

- Mike Murdock

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

- Arnold Palmer

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

- Norman Vincent Peale

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

- William Lyon Phelps

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Francis Picabia

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

- French Proverb

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Ernest Renan

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.

- Anthony Robbins

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.

- Anthony Robbins

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.

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Sugar Ray Robinson

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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world, it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

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

- Ruth Ross

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

- Traditional Saying

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.

- David J Schwartz

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.

- David J Schwartz

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.

- David J Schwartz

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Martin Seligman

Seeing is not always believing.

- Rod Serling

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

- Ben Stein

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

- Terence

I believe because it is impossible.

- Terence

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

- Isiah Thomas

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

- Brian Tracy

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

- Anthony Trollope

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

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

- Jim Valvano

They can because they think they can.

- Virgil

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

- Timothy Virkkala

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.

- Denis Waitley

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

- Denis Waitley

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he cannot.

- 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.

- Oprah Winfrey

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Get Inspired for Virtue 6: Transcendence and Strengths of Meaning and Connection

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

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.

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

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.

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

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

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

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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

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

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

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

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

We are what we believe we are

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.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

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

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

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

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

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.

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

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

You'll see it when you believe it.

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul, unbelief, in denying them.

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

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.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

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

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

You must see first before you can believe.

Loving is half of believing.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Belief creates the actual fact.

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

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.

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

If you think you can do it, you can.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

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

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

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

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

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

Man makes holy what he believes.

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.

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.