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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ovid

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.

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

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

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

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Brown, Les

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Richard

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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Voltaire

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Epictetus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Leo Rosten

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor