Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Jenkins, David

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

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Valery, Paul

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Lilly, John C.

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

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

Voltaire

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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