Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, French

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Hare, David

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.

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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kafka, Franz

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Gerry Spence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Noah Porter

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