Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Proverb, French

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Nizer, Louis

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Cousins, Norman

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Brown, Les

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

Epictetus

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

Ovid

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Richard

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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.