Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Foreman, George

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Noah Porter

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

Gerry Spence

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon