Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Craik, Dinah Mulock

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Ovid

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

James, William

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Barnum, P.T.

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Lilly, John C.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.