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

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Barnum, P.T.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Hare, David

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

Jenkins, David

10.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

11.

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

Gerry Spence

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ovid

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Epictetus

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

27.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

28.

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

Brown, Les

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Leo Rosten

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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 knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas