Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Voltaire

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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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.

Dyer, Wayne

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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 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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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 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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Stein, Ben

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

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

Caesar, Julius

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

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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.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius