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

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Laurence J. Peter

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Buckle, George Earle

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Brown, Les

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Epictetus

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

Voltaire

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