Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Belief.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Max Frisch
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Andrew V. Madson
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected I believe to One does feel.
Ronald Knox
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death
Terry Pratchett
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock Ellis
The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Thomas Carlyle
He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
Neil Gaiman
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher Hampton
One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
