Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Valery, Paul

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lilly, John C.

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Bach, Richard

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gerry Spence

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

Rostand, Jean

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Epictetus

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

John Lilly

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lewis Carroll

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Brown, Les

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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian