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

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 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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Dickinson, Emily

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Kafka, Franz

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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

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

Brown, Les

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Epictetus

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

Saying, Traditional

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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Voltaire

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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