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

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oscar Wilde

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Hare, David

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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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.

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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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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Froude, James A.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ovid

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Stein, Ben

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