Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lilly, John C.

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.

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Brown, Les

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Oscar Wilde

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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.