Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Voltaire

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

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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.

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ditka, Mike

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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.

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

Barnum, P.T.