Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Gomez, Foka

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Robbins, Anthony

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

Froude, James A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Waitley, Denis

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Leo Rosten

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

Foreman, George

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Voltaire

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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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