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

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

Oscar Wilde

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hare, David

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

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis Carroll

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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

Lilly, John C.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Ovid

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Noah Porter

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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