Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

John Lilly

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

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

James, William

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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.

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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Ditka, Mike

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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 develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Gomez, Foka

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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

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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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