Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Wieder, Marcia

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Laurence J. Peter

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Noah Porter

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

Kafka, Franz

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

34.

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Valvano, 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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.