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Sunday, 6 July 2008
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"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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Browse Quotations about Belief

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
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.
All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
All beliefs are bald ideas.
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.
All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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
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.
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.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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.
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.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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.
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.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
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.
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.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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.
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Every dogma has its day.
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.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Everything is possible for him who believes.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
I believe because it is impossible.
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.
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. Les Jeux.
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.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
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.
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.
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.
If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.