Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

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

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Russell, Bertrand

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Froude, James A.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Nizer, Louis

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hare, David

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Noah Porter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Lewis Carroll

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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 in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Lilly, John C.