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

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Kafka, Franz

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

James, William

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

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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 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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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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Ditka, Mike

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