Motivational Quotes

Belief

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Belief

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Waitley, Denis

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Noah Porter

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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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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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Borne, Ludwig

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Rostand, Jean

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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.

32.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Caesar, Julius

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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 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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul