Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Gomez, Foka

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

John Lilly

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Noah Porter

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Valery, Paul

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hare, David

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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.