Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lilly, John C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Foreman, George

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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.

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Gerry Spence

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

John Lilly

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bach, Richard

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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