Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lilly, John C.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Ovid

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Brown, Les

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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