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

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Froude, James A.

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

Bach, Richard

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Voltaire

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Nizer, Louis

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.