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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

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

Rostand, Jean

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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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.

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kafka, Franz

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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

Voltaire

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Ditka, Mike

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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.