Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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 freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Proverb, French

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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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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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.