Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Barnum, P.T.

Best Quotes about Belief

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Kafka, Franz

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Voltaire

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

John Lilly

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

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Ovid

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Epictetus

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They can conquer who believe they can.