These belief quotes will inspire you. Belief, a feeling of being sure that a person or thing exists or is true or trustworthy, or an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging belief quotes, belief sayings, and belief proverbs.
Best Belief Quotes
- “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.” ~ Max Lucado
- “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 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 -
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.” ~ Lydia M. Child
- “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “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 , Self belief quotes
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“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “You’ll see it when you believe it.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.” ~ Abdurrahman Wahid
- “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” ~ Sophia Loren
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“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir , Life belief quotes
- “The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Miracles happen to those who believe in them.” ~ Bernard Berenson
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“The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.” ~ Claude Bernard
- “Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.” ~ John Burroughs
- “Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.” ~ Barbara Bush
- “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
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“I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.” ~ William Kingdon Clifford
- “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.” ~ Richard Dawkins
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“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.” ~ Emile M. Cioran
- “The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.” ~ John Dewey
- “The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.” ~ George Eliot
- “I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.” ~ Ralph Fiennes , Power of belief quotes
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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
- “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
- “There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs… begins.” ~ Isaac Hayes
- “It 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 Hill
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“I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.” ~ Richard L. Evans
- “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
- “Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.” ~ Barbara Jordan
- “It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
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“What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.” ~ Michael Korda
- “They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen and that the world does not end at their housedoor.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
- “The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “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 , False belief quotes
- “Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
- “Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Against 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 Russell
- “What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.” ~ Cat Stevens
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“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.” ~ Voltaire
- “It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.” ~ Paul Wellstone
- “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “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
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“Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.” ~ Arthur Schnitzler
- “Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.” ~ Herbert Agar
- “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
- “While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.” ~ Clay Aiken
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“I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.” ~ Robert Breault
- “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
- “If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.” ~ Amy Lowell
- “I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.” ~ Septima Poinsette Clark
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“I do not believe in Belief.” ~ E. M. Forster
- “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
- “I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.” ~ Robert Breault
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“Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “Oh, how sweet it is to hear one’s own convictions from another’s lips.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.” ~ Paul Valery”Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.” ~ E. O. Wilson
