Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barnum, P.T.

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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

Trollope, Anthony

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

Lewis Carroll

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Buffett, Warren

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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

Ditka, Mike

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Epictetus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton 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