Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Mill, John Stuart

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Proverb, French

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Foreman, George

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Stein, Ben

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Noah Porter

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.