Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Nizer, Louis

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kafka, Franz

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Proverb, French

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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

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

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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Men freely believe that which they desire.