Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Nizer, Louis

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Hare, David

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Froude, James A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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.