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

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

Jenkins, David

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Proverb, French

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Stein, Ben

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

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Cousins, Norman

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ovid

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg