Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about 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.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

10.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Ditka, Mike

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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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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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

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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.

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