Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Virkkala, Timothy

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Voltaire

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

Brown, Les

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

Nizer, Louis

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Noah Porter

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

Froude, James A.

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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Ford, Henry

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Carlyle, Thomas