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

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

Brown, Les

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hare, David

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Nizer, Louis

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

John Lilly

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Barnum, P.T.