Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Leo Rosten

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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