Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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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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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Leo Rosten

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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 you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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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.

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Lilly, John C.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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