Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Valery, Paul

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Borne, Ludwig

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Noah Porter

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

Brown, Les

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Mill, John Stuart

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

Hare, David

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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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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 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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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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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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.