Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Belief

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Epictetus

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

John Lilly

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

Stein, Ben

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Voltaire

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Proverb, French

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Kafka, Franz

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