Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- John Lilly

Best Quotes about Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Froude, James A.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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