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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lilly, John C.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

James, William

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Froude, James A.

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.

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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Noah Porter

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Voltaire

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

Brown, Les

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Carlyle, Thomas