Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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 believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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

Borne, Ludwig

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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.

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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 mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

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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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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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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