Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

James, William

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Ovid

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

Ditka, Mike

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Stein, Ben

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Noah Porter

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

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

Epictetus

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Voltaire

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

Foreman, George

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

Hare, David

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil