Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fuller, Thomas

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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 one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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 abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lilly, John C.

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Ovid

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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

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Waitley, Denis