Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men freely believe that which they desire.

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.