Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Ross, Ruth

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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.

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

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

Epictetus

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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

Stein, Ben

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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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