Motivational Quotes

Belief

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Carlyle, Thomas

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Virkkala, Timothy

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Valery, Paul

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Thomas, Isiah

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, French

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

Ovid

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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You'll see it when you believe it.