Motivational Quotes

Belief

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Voltaire

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.

10.

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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lilly, John C.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Brown, Les

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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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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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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Hare, David

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