Motivational Quotes

Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Proverb, French

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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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kafka, Franz

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Bach, Richard

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

Jenkins, David

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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 freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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