Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Froude, James A.

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

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Foreman, George

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Ditka, Mike

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

John Lilly

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ovid

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

Fuller, Thomas

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