Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

Hare, David

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

Voltaire

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ovid

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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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.