Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Lilly, John C.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Brown, Les

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

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, French

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Miller, Henry

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Waitley, Denis

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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