Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Belief

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Valvano, Jim

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Hare, David

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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

Leo Rosten

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Proverb, French

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

Jenkins, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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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