Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Bach, Richard

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Voltaire

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

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Ovid

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Jenkins, David

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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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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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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 distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Hare, David

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, French

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.