Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Epictetus

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

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

Gomez, Foka

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

John Lilly

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cousins, Norman

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Barker, Joel A.

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

James, William

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.