Motivational Quotes

Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Voltaire

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

Saying, Traditional

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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 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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Leo Rosten

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Epictetus

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Oscar Wilde

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gerry Spence

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

Valery, Paul

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas