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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Proverb, French

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Barnum, P.T.

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Leo Rosten

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Ovid

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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 one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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