142 Inspiring Quotes On Belief

Belief is the invisible force that shapes our lives, guiding us through challenges and shaping our perceptions of the world. It is a powerful catalyst that fuels our dreams and inspires us to push beyond limitations. Whether you’re seeking motivation in times of doubt or looking to ignite a spark in your daily routine, exploring the wisdom of others can offer profound insights into the essence of belief. This collection of 142 inspiring quotes captures the myriad ways in which belief influences our thoughts, actions, and destiny. Join us on a journey of reflection and inspiration as we delve into these timeless words of wisdom and uncover the transformative power of believing in ourselves and the possibilities that lie ahead.

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

2. “As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.” - Mark Helprin

3. “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

4. “The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.” - Chuck Palahniuk

5. “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” - Noam Chomsky

6. “If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.” - Allison DuBois

7. “Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.” - Demosthenes

8. “Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

9. “Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.” - Richard Bach

10. “Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for.” - Betty Smith

11. “There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?” - Suzanne Weyn

12. “You only truly believe that which moves you to action.” - Douglas Cheney

13. “Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.” - Toba Beta

14. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” - Christian D. Larson

15. “That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.” - Malorie Blackman

16. “That's why I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!” - Natsuki Takaya

17. “I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

18. “Some things have to be believed in to be seen.” - Ralph Hodgson

19. “Just because you don't believe it[] [...]doesn't mean that it's not true.” - Katherine Howe

20. “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.” - Steve Maraboli

21. “Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taugh to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if...If we had known who we really were.” - Julia Cameron

22. “Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” - Oprah Winfrey

23. “Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed” - Clarice Lispector

24. “A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.” - Vera Nazarian

25. “You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.” - Haruki Murakami

26. “I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.” - Clint Eastwood

27. “This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

28. “Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think.” - Toba Beta

29. “I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn’t I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn’t want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.” - Lloyd Jones

30. “Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.” - Miguel de Unamuno

31. “You're the only one I ever believe in, the answer that could never be found.” - Goo Goo Dolls Cdwzym Abcd040

32. “I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.” - Beth Gutcheon

33. “God's leaders believe the impossible and move in the eternal.” - Sherry K. White

34. “Believers infiltrate the enemy’s territory with knowledge and power.” - Sherry K. White

35. “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” - Cecil Castellucci

36. “I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.” - Toba Beta

37. “It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.” - Karen Marie Moning

38. “Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.” - Joan Lowery Nixon

39. “If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.” - Toba Beta

40. “If you feel afraid of magic, then you've been enchanted.” - Toba Beta

41. “I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.” - Lucy Liu

42. “I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.” - Gillian Anderson

43. “The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of the strange places, and walk visible under the Sun.""You should be glad," Théoden King," said Gandalf. "For not only the little life of Men is now endangered, but the life also of those thing which you have deemed the matter of legend. You are not without allies, even if you know them not.""Yet also I should be sad," said Théoden. "For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth?” - J.R.R. Tolkien

44. “Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.” - Tom Robbins

45. “I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.” - Ann Richards

46. “We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.” - Paul Auster

47. “Sa më e pabesueshme të jetë një histori, aq më lehtë e besojnë njerëzit atë.” - Christine Grän

48. “I can't believe in something that doesn't believe in me!-Salvation” - Five Finger Death Punch

49. “Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.” - Christopher Reeve

50. “If you still believe in magic, you're subject to enchantment.” - Toba Beta

51. “I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)” - Christopher Nolan

52. “As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.” - Oscar Wilde

53. “There are certain moments in life of open-minded people...which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven.” - Toba Beta

54. “We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.” - S.J. Watson

55. “He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).” - Ann Voskamp

56. “Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.” - T.F. Hodge

57. “Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.” - Deborah Smith

58. “While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.” - T.F. Hodge

59. “I suppose it doesn't matter what form love takes, maybe you just need to take it when it comes.” - Albert Borris

60. “You have to believe in it to get it...” - Nora Roberts

61. “The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks.” - Solange nicole

62. “Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” - Zig Ziglar

63. “Faith, sir, as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself.” - Diedrich Knichkerbocker

64. “Second half of the year starts NOW July 1st with the next 6 months being MORE important than the last 6 months. I Your Name promise to do all that I can to achieve my Goal . I will not sit on a corner wait I will seek my opportunity. I promise to go after my Goal with passion knowing that the clock is ticking… Sign and date” - Pablo

65. “He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.” - Hilary Duff

66. “Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.” - Sam Childers

67. “Respect the verbs in your life.Life is a verb. Live is a verb.Live Life. Action verbsbring life to writing.Love is a verb. Be is a verb.Be in LoveBelieve, love, give,receive,tag,Believing in love,giving love, receiving love,love tag(you are it)dance, prance, pounce, smile, try,trying to smile,dancing and prancing,pounce!laugh, do, go, grow, feel, touch,touching, feeling, growing, doing,going, laughing, sing, walk, run, cook, look,see, eat, meet, greet, smell,hear,look and see the cooking,singing and then walking into the kitchen to eat,eating the yummy food.running to see,seeing the food, meeting and greeting others;smelling the cooking,hearing the laughter;seeing the runners;touching the icing. licking the icing. tasting the licking of the spoondiscover, realize, live, respect.discover life, realizing truth,living, respecting everyoneunder the sun,even all the universelove and respect all” - Jerriann Wayahowl Law

68. “At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.” - Chris Van Allsburg

69. “Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.” - Nicholas A. McGirr

70. “Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn't.” - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

71. “To believe or not to believe, is a problem. To leave or to conceive is another problem. To ascertain and to achieve is to solve the problem.” - A. Saleh

72. “She always wanted to believe in things.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

73. “أؤمن بالله حتى لو ألحد العالم و ضواحيه.. حتى لو رفض العلم و العقل و الرياضة و حساب المثلثات.. حتى لو كان كل شيء مسبب و له مصدر و له نهاية.. حتى لو تفشى الظلم حتى لو لم يصبح أي شيء عادل.. حتى لو إختفى الكمال و إختفى الجمال.. حتى لو لم نجد في عقلنا الأسباب و المسببات.” - عمرو سلامة

74. “I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.” - River Phoenix

75. “Nothing is impossible for him who believes.” - Anonymous

76. “Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.” - James A. Owen

77. “Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.” - E.J. Patten

78. “Going after what I believe in.” - Paulo Coelho

79. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” - Jim Valvano

80. “I began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadn't even known she was supposed to have. Of all the things Tiger Lily had thought she might have to be for Peter-strong, brave; to be big and to keep up-she had never thought that the one thing he wanted most from her was simply to show that she believed in him, always and without fail.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

81. “There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.” - Irvine Welsh

82. “Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost” - Hayley Williams

83. “Fear   Only  Constraints  Undeveloped                       Strength                      where your eyes look to within,                      is what your heart will believe.” - Anthony Liccione

84. “Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.” - David Eddings

85. “... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And yet ... I don't disbelieve either. I'm kind of sitting on the ghost fence, dangling my legs on both sides, not sure which way to jump. I think I might be here for a while.” - Karen Tayleur

86. “But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.” - Karen Tayleur

87. “If you're still believing, then you're almost there!” - Anthony Liccione

88. “Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don't believe in them.  For I know the truth.  Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail.  That queen is my mother.  With unwavering faith I believe in her.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

89. “Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is.” - Steven Redhead

90. “We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.” - Steven Redhead

91. “It's only a moment if you believe.” - Jason Connelly

92. “Ky gives me three gifts for my birthday. A poem, a kiss and the hopeless, beautiful belief that things might work. When I open my eyes... I say, "I didn't give you anything for your birthday, i don't even know when it is." And he says, "Don't worry about that" and I say, "What can I do?" and he answers, "Let me believe in this, all of this, and you believe it too."And I do.” - Ally Condie

93. “One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.” - Aaron Haspel

94. “To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started” - Pablo

95. “Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.” - Pauline Baynes

96. “If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.” - Katie Kacvinsky

97. “Its Barnum & Bailey world just as phony as it can be,But it would't be make-believe if you believed in me” - Haruki Murakami

98. “If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?” - Teresa Mummert

99. “I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.” - Cora Carmack

100. “Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying” - Holly Black

101. “The more we do to you,the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” - Joseph mengele

102. “Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank

103. “Without ambition, no goal can be met.” - Kya Aliana

104. “We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.” - Shina Charles Memud

105. “Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!” - Raymond Benson

106. “Hope is magic. Hope is a gift. Hope is a raft we cling to in the midst of a storm. Hope by nature is an independent of logic. Hope is power outside of the facts.The human mind longs for something better. Hope is not rational. Yet who need rationality when God is on our side? The capacity of hope is the most significant fact in life.” - Tommy Tran

107. “I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.” - Jodi Picoult

108. “...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.” - Paul Hoffman

109. “Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.” - Hans Selye

110. “If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote.” - Toba Beta

111. “I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.” - Erlend Loe

112. “Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.” - Jill Telford

113. “Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.” - Anthony Liccione

114. “The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.” - Bryant McGill

115. “Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. (Unknown)” - D.J. Stutley

116. “This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.” - Kurt Vonnegut

117. “I don't believe in past,I don't believe in future,I just believe in present.” - Abhishek Chaudhary

118. “Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.” - Matt Mitchell

119. “I don't know when I'll able to knock in the door of her mind. But I believe in my love, enthusiasm and passion. Someday dream may come true.” - Santonu Kumar Dhar

120. “I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous.   I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can't fathom. ” - Richelle E. Goodrich

121. “Always" is a good word to believe in.” - Susan Abulhawa

122. “To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.” - Richard Sagor

123. “When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that passion doesn't equal strength, and our sinful nature rears its ugly head.” - Hayley and Michael DiMarco

124. “I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.” - Ken Venturi

125. “«En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar», decía Herbert. «Si razonas, Dios se esfuma como una bocanada de humo.»” - Mario Vargas Llosa

126. “Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them.” - Chioma Nkachukwu

127. “Trust and believe, and you will achieve.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

128. “—¿Por qué sigues creyendo en Dios? ¿No estás enfadada con Él por todas las cosas malas que te han pasado?Ella interrumpió lo que estaba haciendo y se volvió hacia él. Gabriel parecía muy infeliz.—A todo el mundo le pasan cosas malas. ¿Por qué iba a ser yo distinta a los demás?—Porque eres buena.Ella se miró las manos.—El universo no se basa en la magia. No hay unas reglas para las personas buenas y otras para las personas malas. Todo el mundo sufre en un momento u otro. Lo importante es lo que haces con tu dolor, ¿no crees?” - Sylvain Reynard

129. “Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.” - Lauren Oliver

130. “The most precious gift to give to your spouse is not your life because if you die,he/she will no longer have use of you rather the most precious gift is your time, attention, affection, self and love!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

131. “I don't know if anyone can ever really explain why they believe in someone. But I do. I believe in you. I hope that's worth something.” - Amy Reed

132. “I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.” - David K. Bernard

133. “Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

134. “The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.” - Andrew Lane

135. “Believers are achievers, therefore believe and achieve!• Believe that you are responsible for your own accomplishments God deposited in you!• Believe that success is not luck; it is the result a deliberate effort to do a hard work!• Believe that prayer works through faith and action!• Believe that great people took great steps. Weak people took weak steps!• Believe that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you!” - Israelmore Ayivor

136. “I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.” - Eleonore Caron

137. “What did you think about?" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either. "I thought about angels," I say."Angels?""You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven." "Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?" He asks."I don't know. No. Do you?""I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have.” - Ally Condie

138. “When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith....” - E.A. Bucchianeri

139. “BELIEVE in yourself even if nobody else does!” - Stephanie Lahart

140. “Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.” - Kathryn Littlewood

141. “Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last.” - Adam Bagdasarian

142. “We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.” - Emily Dickinson