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 GandhiThe world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.
Oscar WildeThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
Muhammad AliI 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 CooleyDon’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.
Paulo CoelhoMany 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 BierceWe have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe 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 IngersollI 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 RussellIt 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 HillBeliefs 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 RobbinsMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoTrust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James DeanOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellOne 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 PascalIntelligence 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 GandhiIf 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 MaughamDemocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. MenckenFaith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster FullerBelief creates the actual fact.
William JamesFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MenckenMan is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI 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.
AristotleFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesCapitalism 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.
AristotleA 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 CouplandReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard DawkinsDoublethink 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 AliGod made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil GibranAnd the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.
Alan WattsMen of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief, a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. GardnerI believe that we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas JeffersonTruth 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 RobbinsSince 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 BabaI shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert EinsteinThe 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 JamesWe'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 ObamaDo 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.
BuddhaI 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 EinsteinA 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