Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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.

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Hodges, H. A.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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 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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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.

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Bach, Richard

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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