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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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 barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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