Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lewis Carroll

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Ovid

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Borne, Ludwig

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Caesar, Julius

10.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

11.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

12.

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

John Lilly

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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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

18.

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

22.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

25.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

30.

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

31.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

32.

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

Gerry Spence

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Lilly, John C.

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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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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 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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hodges, H. A.

41.

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

Noah Porter

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

43.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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