Quotations: Belief

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
James Allen

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
Dr. Robert Anthony

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Stuart Chase

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Winston Churchill

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

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

If 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 Gandhi

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Bastet Joan of Arc

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Harvey MacKay

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Everett D. Martin

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

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

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
George Bernard Shaw

Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.
William Robertson Smith

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau

It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.
Unknown

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
Virgil

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Oscar Wilde

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright