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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ovid

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ford, Henry

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

15.

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

Noah Porter

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Jenkins, David

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Valery, Paul

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

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

John Lilly

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

Lilly, John C.

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