Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Brown, Les

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Lilly, John C.

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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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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Foreman, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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

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