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

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Waitley, Denis

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Caesar, Julius

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Brown, Les

25.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Brown, Les

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Voltaire

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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