Motivational Quotes

Belief

You must see first before you can believe.

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Wieder, Marcia

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

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.

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Virkkala, Timothy

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bach, Richard

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cousins, Norman

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

James, William

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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