Motivational Quotes

Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Voltaire

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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 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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Proverb, French

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Leo Rosten

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Borne, Ludwig