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 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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Nizer, Louis

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

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

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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Buckle, George Earle

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Valvano, Jim

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.