Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Noah Porter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Epictetus

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Voltaire

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Leo Rosten

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Ovid

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

Brown, Les

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

Ross, Ruth

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.