Motivational Quotes

Belief

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

- Ralph Hodgson

Best Quotes about Belief

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Mill, John Stuart

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

10.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

James, William

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hare, David

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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 gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Leo Rosten

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

Stein, Ben

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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 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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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

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren