Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Epictetus

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

Ross, Ruth

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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.

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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Leo Rosten

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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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 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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.