Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Belief

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Miller, Henry

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Epictetus

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Lewis Carroll