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

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Hare, David

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

Voltaire

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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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.

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

James, William

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Ovid

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

Gerry Spence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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 old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.