Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Ditka, Mike

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ford, Henry

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Voltaire

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

John Lilly

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Borne, Ludwig

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Nizer, Louis

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb, French

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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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

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

James, William