Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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.

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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Noah Porter

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

John Lilly

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hare, David

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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