Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lilly, John C.

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hare, David

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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