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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Franz Kafka
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All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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All beliefs are bald ideas.
Francis Picabia
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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.
Tony Robbins
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
Anthony Trollope
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
William James
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
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Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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.
Tony Robbins
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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.
David J. Schwartz
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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
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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
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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.
Gautama Buddha
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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
Les Brown
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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.
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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.
James Baldwin
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
Norman Cousins
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson
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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
Claude M. Bristol
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Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
J. M. Barrie
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Everything is possible for him who believes.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.
Norman Vincent Peale
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Henry Ford
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
Thomas Fuller M.D.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Charles Caleb Colton
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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
Michel de Montaigne
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
George Eliot
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett
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I believe because it is impossible.
Terence
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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
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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
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Augustine of Hippo
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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.
Denis Waitley
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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.
Tony Robbins
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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Dr. Robert Anthony
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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
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. Mencken
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Søren Kierkegaard
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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Loving is half of believing.
Victor Hugo
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Man makes holy what he believes.
Ernest Renan
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Pliny the Elder
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Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar
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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Earl of Chesterfield
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Lewis Carroll
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
Ovid
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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.
David J. Schwartz
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Walter Bagehot
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valéry
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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
Emily Dickinson
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
David Hare
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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
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Bruce Barton
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The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Thomas Carlyle
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Richard DeVos
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
James Anthony Froude
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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
James Allen
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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.
Carl Jung
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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.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
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They can because they think they can.
Virgil
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
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