Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Kafka, Franz

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.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Voltaire

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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 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