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Belief

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Noah Porter

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

Leo Rosten

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Ovid

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gifford, Frank

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb, French

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

Mcwilliams, 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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Ditka, Mike

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

John Lilly

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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