Motivational Quotes

Belief

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ovid

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Epictetus

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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 need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Ford, Henry

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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 only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.