Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Epictetus

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

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

Valery, Paul

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Foreman, George

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

Leo Rosten

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Voltaire

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Gerry Spence

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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

28.

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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

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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