Motivational Quotes

Belief

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

- John Lilly

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Stein, Ben

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

James, William

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Gerry Spence

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Proverb, French

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

Dickinson, Emily