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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Voltaire

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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.

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Proverb, French

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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