Motivational Quotes

Belief

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Belief

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lewis Carroll

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

James, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Foreman, George

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

Ford, Henry

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

11.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Hare, David

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

John Lilly

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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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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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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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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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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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas