Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Stein, Ben

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Proverb, French

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

19.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Leo Rosten

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

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Lewis Carroll

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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