Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief gets in the way of learning.

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Miller, Henry

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

Buckle, George Earle

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.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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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 started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oscar Wilde

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Noah Porter