A collection of quotes and sayings on ‘belief’ for a positive life.

Belief Quotes For Those Who Believe They Deserve It

Belief is to give credence, have confidence in someone or accept if something is true without proof. It is said that ‘what you believe is what you attract.’ The universe loves believers and you can achieve whatever you aim for, if you believe in yourself. Belief in yourself, trusting your instincts, being patient, trusting your abilities and having faith are the ingredients to success. The law of attraction states that ‘if you believe in something, it has no choice but to materialize.’ So when you see your faith shaking and the world seems dark just ‘Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.’ We have rounded some thought-provoking and inspiring quotes and sayings shared by eminent personalities, motivational speakers, celebrities, philosophers, artists, writers and extraordinary thinkers that will remind you of what you are capable of achieving if you believe in yourself. Zoom through the compilation of insightful and noteworthy quotes and thoughts that will bring up your spirits at times when you lack self-belief and feel the urge to give up.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe

I 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.

I 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. Lewis

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
Kurt Vonnegut

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
Maya Angelou

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
Marilyn Monroe

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
J. K. Rowling

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.
Nicholas Sparks

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
John Steinbeck

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Edgar Allan Poe

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
E. E. Cummings

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles
Audrey Hepburn

It's all make believe, isn't it?
Marilyn Monroe

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
A. A. Milne

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
James Hilton

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.
Margaret Atwood

You are what you believe yourself to be.

You are what you believe yourself to be.
Paulo Coelho

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.

It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
Neil Gaiman

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
Margaret Atwood

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
Albert Camus

If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?

If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?
David Sedaris

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
August Wilson

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
Orhan Pamuk

I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
Judy Garland

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
Terry Goodkind

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

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

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C. S. Lewis

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
Albert Camus

I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.

I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
Aung San Suu Kyi

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.
Joss Whedon

I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts.

I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts.
Jordan Belfort

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Umberto Eco

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve Martin

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
Mary Oliver

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
Neil Gaiman

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
Nicholas Sparks

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
Babe Ruth

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Gautama Buddha

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David Byrne

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
Karl Lagerfeld

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
George Carlin

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
Nelson Mandela

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.
Steven Spielberg

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit
E. E. Cummings

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right.
Marilyn Monroe

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
Thor Heyerdahl

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble
Rudyard Kipling

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
Orson Scott Card

I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.
Anderson Cooper

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Hermann Hesse

I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.
Galileo Galilei

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
William Jennings Bryan

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
John Lennon

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
Aung San Suu Kyi

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
Orson Scott Card

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
William Jennings Bryan

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
Orhan Pamuk

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
Madeleine Albright

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
Albert Einstein

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.
Mario Puzo

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
Muhammad Ali

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.
Roseanne Barr

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
Steven Spielberg

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous Huxley

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
Neil Gaiman

You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
Johnny Cash

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert F. Kennedy

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund Freud

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