Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief gets in the way of learning.

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Belief

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Buckle, George Earle

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Noah Porter

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

Brown, Les

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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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 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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Epictetus

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Oscar Wilde

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Hare, David

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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