Motivational Quotes

Belief

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

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

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

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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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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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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.

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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.

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

Hare, David

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Voltaire

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

Nizer, Louis

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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