Motivational Quotes

Belief

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Virkkala, Timothy

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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 change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. 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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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Brown, Les

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.