Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

James, William

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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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.

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

Kafka, Franz

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leo Rosten

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

Epictetus

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Ovid