Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Craik, Dinah Mulock

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Saying, Traditional

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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.

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Waitley, Denis

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

James, William

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.