Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Epictetus

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

James, William

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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.

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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

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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