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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Nizer, Louis

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stein, Ben

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert