Motivational Quotes

Belief

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Ford, Henry

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Leo Rosten

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

Noah Porter

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

Proverb, French

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Ovid

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Kafka, Franz

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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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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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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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Foreman, George

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

Valvano, Jim