Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Noah Porter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Stein, Ben

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

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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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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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 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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Lewis Carroll

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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

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

Noah Porter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ovid

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dickinson, Emily