Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bach, Richard

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Gerry Spence

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lilly, John C.

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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 have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Leo Rosten

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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.