Motivational Quotes

Belief

You must see first before you can believe.

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Buckle, George Earle

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Brown, Les

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ovid

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hare, David

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bach, Richard

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Lewis Carroll