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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Noah Porter

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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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 lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Lilly, John C.

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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