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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

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

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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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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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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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Epictetus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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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.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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 you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.