Motivational Quotes

Belief

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Voltaire

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Stein, Ben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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 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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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