Motivational Quotes

Belief

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

- Gutzkow

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Stein, Ben

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Epictetus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Hare, David

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

Laurence J. Peter

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Proverb, French

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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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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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent