Motivational Quotes

Belief

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

- Ross, Ruth

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stein, Ben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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 you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Noah Porter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Barker, Joel A.