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

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.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Dickinson, Emily

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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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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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Voltaire

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Waitley, Denis