Motivational Quotes

Belief

We are what we believe we are

- Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Gerry Spence

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Froude, James A.

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Voltaire

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Ovid

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Foreman, George