To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
We are what we believe we are.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Believe it or not.
R. L. Ripley
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
E.D. Martin
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering
I believe because it is impossible.
Tertullian
Belief means not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
Benjamin Franklin
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
You can do it if you believe you can!
Napoleon Hill
Action will furnish belief, – but will that belief be the true one?
This is the point, you know.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
When you believe a thing, believe in it all the way.
Walt Disney
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
Proverb
All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Arnold Bennett
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Philip K. Dick
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people.
John Lovejoy Elliott
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about -where- we shall land, but rather on the belief that we – shall – land.
Carter Heyward
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
Martin Luther
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohen
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
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus
I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it’s an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I’ve learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.
Sasha Azevedo
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Mark Twain
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
I always try to believe the best of everybody — it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.
William Robertson Smith
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…
Dalai Lama
If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas Carlyle
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin
If there were a verb meaning ‘to believe falsely’, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Antonio Porchia
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Sibert Cather
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent Peale
Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
Robert Collier quotes
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief.
Shree Rajneesh
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
John Lancaster Spalding
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
Antonio Porchia
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
Saint Bartholomew
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
Blaise Pascal
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
William James
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens van der Post
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Albert Einstein
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd
It is impossible to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all ~ oneself.
Graham Greene
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Anonymous
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.
Anonymous
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Max Depree
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
Hannah Senesh
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Albert Einstein
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
Nothing else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
Johann Goethe
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf Karsh
Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.
Ivana Trump
Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it’s possible and believe in yourself. Because after you’ve decided what you want, you have to believe it’s possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
Jack Canfield
Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
More than anything else, I believe it’s our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
Anthony Robbins
Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
Anonymous
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey
It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Blaise Pascal
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself reasons why I can.
Anonymous
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Seneca
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Henry Louis Mencken
Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.
Brian Tracy
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
G. K. Chesterton
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Winston Churchill
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
Stuart Chase
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
Anonymous
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
George Bernard Shaw
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
Lily Tomlin
One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.
Napoleon Hill
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
Meister Eckhart
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Harvey MacKay
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Oscar Wilde
The weaker the intellect, the stronger the belief.
James Dee Richardson
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
James Allen
Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
Larry Flynt
To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno
The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
Paul Watzlawick
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Anonymous
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
Seeing is believing.
Proverb
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Ezra Pound
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Any belief worth having must survive doubt
Anonymous
This is how humans are, we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
Orson Scott Card