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

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

Cousins, Norman

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Proverb, French

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

Leo Rosten

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Saying, Traditional

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.