Believing in oneself is a powerful force that can drive personal growth, resilience, and success. Whether you're facing a challenging situation, pursuing a lifelong dream, or simply navigating the complexities of everyday life, self-belief acts as an unwavering anchor. It empowers us to push beyond our limits, learn from setbacks, and embrace our unique potential. The wisdom encapsulated in uplifting quotes from thinkers, leaders, and inspirational figures can often serve as a gentle nudge in the right direction. In this collection, we've gathered 85 of the most inspiring "Believe in Yourself" quotes to motivate, uplift, and remind you of your inherent strength and capability. Dive in and discover words that resonate with your journey.
1. “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
2. “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
3. “Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.” - Gordon B. Hinckley
4. “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
5. “Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.” - Toba Beta
6. “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
7. “Some things have to be believed in to be seen.” - Ralph Hodgson
8. “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.” - Steve Maraboli
9. “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
10. “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
11. “Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed” - Clarice Lispector
12. “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
13. “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
14. “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
15. “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
16. “God's leaders believe the impossible and move in the eternal.” - Sherry K. White
17. “Believers infiltrate the enemy’s territory with knowledge and power.” - Sherry K. White
18. “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
19. “What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.” - Stephen King
20. “Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.” - Joan Lowery Nixon
21. “If you feel afraid of magic, then you've been enchanted.” - Toba Beta
22. “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
23. “We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.” - Paul Auster
24. “Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.” - Christopher Reeve
25. “If you still believe in magic, you're subject to enchantment.” - Toba Beta
26. “Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in yourself and create a world where dreams become reality.” - Charlene A Wilson
27. “What we beileve is what we see.” - Sukant Ratnakar
28. “I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)” - Christopher Nolan
29. “Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16)” - Anonymous
30. “As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.” - Oscar Wilde
31. “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
32. “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
33. “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
34. “Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.” - Deborah Smith
35. “While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.” - T.F. Hodge
36. “I suppose it doesn't matter what form love takes, maybe you just need to take it when it comes.” - Albert Borris
37. “You have to believe in it to get it...” - Nora Roberts
38. “The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks.” - Solange nicole
39. “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
40. “He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.” - Hilary Duff
41. “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
42. “Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.” - Janet Taylor Lisle
43. “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
44. “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
45. “Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.” - Nicholas A. McGirr
46. “She always wanted to believe in things.” - Kazuo Ishiguro
47. “When you really believe that using sword can kill people,that's when you will be subject to the law of the sword,"those who use the sword will die by the sword.” - Toba Beta
48. “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
49. “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
50. “Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.” - E.J. Patten
51. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” - Jim Valvano
52. “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
53. “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
54. “Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost” - Hayley Williams
55. “Fear Only Constraints Undeveloped Strength where your eyes look to within, is what your heart will believe.” - Anthony Liccione
56. “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
57. “If you're still believing, then you're almost there!” - Anthony Liccione
58. “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
59. “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
60. “We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.” - Steven Redhead
61. “It's only a moment if you believe.” - Jason Connelly
62. “I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.” - Cora Carmack
63. “The more we do to you,the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” - Joseph mengele
64. “Without ambition, no goal can be met.” - Kya Aliana
65. “We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.” - Shina Charles Memud
66. “...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
67. “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
68. “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
69. “Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.” - Anthony Liccione
70. “Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. (Unknown)” - D.J. Stutley
71. “I don't believe in past,I don't believe in future,I just believe in present.” - Abhishek Chaudhary
72. “Truth to tell, I'm right proud of Glory. She's standing up for what she believes is right. All of us should lead our children to do that, don't you know?” - Augusta Scattergood
73. “Always" is a good word to believe in.” - Susan Abulhawa
74. “To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.” - Richard Sagor
75. “«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
76. “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
77. “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
78. “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
79. “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
80. “I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.” - Eleonore Caron
81. “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
82. “Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.” - Bryant McGill
83. “BELIEVE in yourself even if nobody else does!” - Stephanie Lahart
84. “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
85. “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
