Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Noah Porter

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Jenkins, David

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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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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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Ovid

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