Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kafka, Franz

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

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

10.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

19.

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

Ovid

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

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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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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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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

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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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

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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.