Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Cousins, Norman

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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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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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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.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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