Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William JamesWhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya AngelouI believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma GandhiIf 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 GandhiAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham LincolnBecause one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao TzuThe world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.
Oscar WildeYou don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.
Oprah WinfreyThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeI don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
Bob MarleyI believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.
Maya AngelouOther people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Mason CooleyI believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya AngelouWe are what we believe we are.
C. S. LewisDon’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.
Paulo CoelhoOne person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart MillMany of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil GibranI've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
Muhammad AliIt's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad AliI had therefore to remove knowledge in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel KantFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceThe outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
James AllenThe mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard BachEvery 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 JohnsonFirst thing every morning before you arise say out loud 'I believe ' three times.
OvidIt is my belief you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Winston ChurchillDo not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
BuddhaIgnorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert Green IngersollEvery 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 WinfreyI never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad AliAgainst my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known, at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand RussellBy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz KafkaI don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah WinfreyIt is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs, are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas HuxleyOne 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 HillAmericans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. NixonBeliefs 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 RobbinsIf you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. Somerset MaughamEvery man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoMy great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert LawrenceThe 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.
David Herbert LawrenceHe does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Thomas FullerI really don't believe in magic.
J. K. RowlingIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherThe discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Mason CooleyUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanI believe in equality for everyone except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma GandhiTrust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James DeanBelief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas PaineOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellBelief, like any other moving body, follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel ButlerOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous HuxleyAll who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
AristotleBelief 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 PascalWe have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. RooseveltJust as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund FreudI believe the most important single thing beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya AngelouI don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it, that's my religion.
Alice WalkerBasically I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette DavisAbsurdity n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose BierceI confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul SartreIntelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. CioranIt is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma GandhiThe four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. ForsterI cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich NietzscheI am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
John WoodenIt's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. HeinleinSometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis CarrollIf children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard DawkinsSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleMy own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset MaughamMind, word and act, all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play, that is the genuine path.
Sai BabaDemocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. MenckenReligious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. WilsonThe 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 JungI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellFaith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster FullerThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMan is a credulous animal and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand RussellI would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich NietzscheBelief creates the actual fact.
William JamesThere is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic, because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya AngelouI believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah WinfreyIt is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
J. K. RowlingOld beliefs die hard, even when demonstrably false.
E. O. WilsonRational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert EllisFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MenckenIt has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving, or the class of people served.
Napoleon HillMan is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai LamaI believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI can tell you honest friend what to believe: believe life, it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll that one gains by falsehood is not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
AristotleHe is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerThe want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan SwiftFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesA consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin DisraeliMan can believe the impossible but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar WildeWhile they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen KellerCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power, but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawLiars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.
AristotleYour belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinBelief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul, unbelief in denying them.
George EliotA good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
AristotleImagination grows by exercise and, contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset MaughamI find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Doug CouplandTolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather, it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. KennedyIn the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone WeilReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard DawkinsThe thing always happens that you really believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd WrightWho are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Groucho MarxDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
George OrwellTo believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.
Mahatma GandhiLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliI try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Muhammad AliMiracles only happen if you believe in miracles.
Paulo CoelhoGod made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil GibranTo me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret ThatcherMagic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnd the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.
Alan WattsThe point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand RussellThe songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Bob DylanThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinI mean as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
Tiger WoodsStrong beliefs win strong men and then make them stronger.
Richard BachDon't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Laurence J. PeterI don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you, doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry RollinsI hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson MiznerAmerica is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. BushThe fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleLearned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerOptimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose BierceIf 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 WaitleyIt's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Lily TomlinSuperstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene DietrichI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas JeffersonLive your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David ThoreauTruth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal, one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor W. AdornoIt's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony RobbinsWhen you have come to the edge of all the light you have, And step into the darkness of the unknown, Believe that one of the two will happen to you, Either you'll find something solid to stand on, Or you'll be taught how to fly!
Richard BachMany of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence, but we thought if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard DawkinsSince I move about with you, eat like you and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But any movement My Divinity may be revealed to you, you have to be ready prepared for that moment.
Sai BabaThe belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre it just keeps coming back.
Paul RyanThe most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles LambI shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert EinsteinThe Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent PealeSome 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 WattsWhere belief is painful, we are slow to believe.
OvidThe 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 JamesI'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance, and generosity, that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. WilsonI believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya AngelouThe word 'Antichrist' to me is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn MansonWhy, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis CarrollI was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah WinfreyThe probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham LincolnNow God be praised that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William ShakespeareReligious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. WilsonI don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Douglas AdamsWe've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaTruth lives in fact for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass so long as nothing challenges them just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William JamesA civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs and knowledge, slowly accumulated in the course of centuries; elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LewisDo not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.
BuddhaFrisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George CarlinWhen a man tells you who he is... believe him.
Maya AngelouI do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert EinsteinYou should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin LutherA belief in hell, and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton, have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley