Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Froude, James A.

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.

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

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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 the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oscar Wilde

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Foreman, George

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

Gerry Spence

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Ford, Henry

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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