Motivational Quotes

Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gomez, Foka

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

John Lilly

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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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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Leo Rosten

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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