Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Foreman, George

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

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

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Leo Rosten

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kafka, Franz

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Ovid

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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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 willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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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

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Miller, Henry

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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