Quotes about belief

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

— John C. Lilly

If you think you can do it, you can.

— Eric Lindros

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

— Walter Lippmann

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

— Walter Lippmann

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

— Martin Luther

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

— Andrew V. Madson

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.

— General Peyton C. March

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.

— Peter Marshall

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

— Everett D. Martin

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

— Peter Mcwilliams

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Henry Miller

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

— Olin Miller

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

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

— Alfred A. Montapert

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

— Mike Murdock

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

— Louis Nizer

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

— Thomas Paine

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

— Arnold Palmer

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.

— Blaise Pascal

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

— Blaise Pascal

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

— Norman Vincent Peale

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

— Norman Vincent Peale

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

— William Lyon Phelps

All beliefs are bald ideas.

— Francis Picabia

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

— Pliny The Elder

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

— French Proverb

Man makes holy what he believes.

— Ernest Renan

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.

— Anthony Robbins

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.

— Anthony Robbins

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.

— Anthony Robbins

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.

— Anthony Robbins

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

— Sugar Ray Robinson

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

— Ruth Ross

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

— Jean Rostand

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

— Leo Rosten

Every dogma has its day.

— Abraham Rotstein

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

— Wilma Rudolph

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.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

— Susan Sarandon

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

— Traditional Saying

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.

— David J. Schwartz

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.

— David J. Schwartz

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.

— David J. Schwartz

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

— Martin Seligan

Seeing is not always believing.

— Rod Serling

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.

— Lillian Smith

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

— Ben Stein

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

— Jonathan Swift

I believe because it is impossible.

— Terence

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

— Terence

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

— Isiah Thomas

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

— Brian Tracy

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

— Anthony Trollope

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

— Source Unknown

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

— Source Unknown

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

— Paul Valery

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

— Jim Valvano

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.

— F. D. Van Amburgh

They can because they think they can.

— Virgil

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

— Timothy Virkkala

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.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Denis Waitley

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

— Alan W. Watts

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

— Marcia Wieder

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

— Oscar Wilde

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.

— Robert Wilson

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.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Gerry Spence

In an age of nothing, at a time when we stand at the brink of our own destruction? Strengthen your belief in yourself, in the future of humanity, in the things of this world that cannot be easily perceived. Awaken that which lies dormant now within your soul. Re-ignite the flame of your consciousness, and measure the strength of your conviction. Reveal the lie. Renounce your hatred. Seek, find and embrace the truths you are fortunate enough to discover. Cherish them. Use them to anchor you in the sea of chaos that is the world we live in. When twilight draws near, when you are pushed to the very limits of your soul, When it seems that all you have left are the dead remnants of the fabric of your life? Believe.

— Disturbed

When something good begins to happen, your preconditioned beliefs suddenly kick in and your mind finds way to sabotage things. Keep focused, don't allow the negativity to overwhelm you, change in any form whether it's a companion, a new job, a step closer to a dream etc can be scary but Why not embrace that fear and trust in yourself, your abilities, take that leap of faith and move forward. It's better to have tried then to sit and wonder what could have been

— inderjeet rajpal

Our belief is often based on riot of views and chaos of confusion. "

— Ravindran