Belief Quotes - Page 24

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  Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Believe, Ends

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• Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  E. O. Wilson

  Faith, Lds, Religion

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, p. 256, 1998.

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• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Tests, Practicals

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14

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• O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
  Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
  Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
  The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Believe, Past

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

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• All personal breakthroughs begin 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

  Inspirational, Pain, Past

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

  Herbert Agar

  Inspirational, Men, Principles

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• The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

  Stephen Covey

  Fashion, Time, Philosophy

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• To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Believe, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.234

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• I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

  Robert Breault

  Struggle, Skepticism, Persons

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

  Paul Valery

  Atheism, Chance, Has Beens

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• I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

  Jensen Ackles

  Christian, Church, Grew Up

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• If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

  Amy Lowell

  Fire, Worship, Failing

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I do not believe in Belief.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'.

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• If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Democratic, Socialist

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• The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

  Michael Polanyi

  Enlightenment, Process, Stability

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• Any belief worth having must survive doubt

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doubt

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• Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Accomplishment, Lips

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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.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Pain, Break Through

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

  Elia Kazan

  Believe, Winning, Usa

  Elia Kazan, Michel Ciment (1974). “Kazan on Kazan”, Viking Adult

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• With how much ease believe we what we wish!

  John Dryden

  Believe, Wish, Ease

  Nathaniel Lee, John Dryden, Arthur Murphy, George Farquhar, Hannah Cowley (1815). “Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy”

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• I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Peace, Creativity, Thinking

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Death, Dying, Liberty

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• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Faith

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