Motivational Quotes

Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

- Saint Augustine

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Seligan, Martin

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.

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

Barnum, P.T.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Proverb, French

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

Ditka, Mike

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Ovid

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

Voltaire

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Brown, Les

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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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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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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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 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