Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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.