Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Brown, Les

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Noah Porter

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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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De