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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dickinson, Emily

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Valery, Paul