Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Brown, Les

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Voltaire

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Barker, Joel A.

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Noah Porter

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Ovid

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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