Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Dickinson, Emily

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Wilde, Oscar

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

11.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Rostand, Jean

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

James, William

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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.

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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

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Brown, Les

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David