Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Epictetus

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Leo Rosten

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

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Foreman, George

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ford, Henry

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

34.

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

Ditka, Mike

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Froude, James A.

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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.

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

Brown, Les