Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Barker, Joel A.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

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

Saying, Traditional

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bach, Richard

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Ovid

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Leo Rosten

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

Noah Porter

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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