Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Gerry Spence

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

Froude, James A.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Saying, Traditional

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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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Brown, Les

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Ovid

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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.