Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mill, John Stuart

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

Caesar, Julius

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Noah Porter

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Ditka, Mike

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hare, David

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Voltaire

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest