Belief Quotes and Sayings

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda

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

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

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