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

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Ovid

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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

Ditka, Mike

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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Nizer, Louis

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Foreman, George

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Lewis Carroll

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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.