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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

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

Froude, James A.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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.

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

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

Kafka, Franz

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Foreman, George

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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.