Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

John Lilly

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Proverb, French

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gerry Spence

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

Rostand, Jean

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

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

Noah Porter

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David