Believing in yourself and your dreams is a powerful catalyst for growth and success. Whether you need a boost of confidence or a reminder to stay hopeful, the right words can inspire and motivate you to keep moving forward. In this collection, we've carefully selected 97 of the most inspiring quotes about belief that encourage positivity, resilience, and courage. Let these words uplift your spirit and remind you of the incredible strength that comes from simply choosing to believe.
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. “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
3. “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
4. “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
5. “Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.” - Demosthenes
6. “Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.” - Gordon B. Hinckley
7. “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
8. “You only truly believe that which moves you to action.” - Douglas Cheney
9. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” - Christian D. Larson
10. “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
11. “Some things have to be believed in to be seen.” - Ralph Hodgson
12. “Just because you don't believe it[] [...]doesn't mean that it's not true.” - Katherine Howe
13. “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.” - Steve Maraboli
14. “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
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “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
19. “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
20. “You're the only one I ever believe in, the answer that could never be found.” - Goo Goo Dolls Cdwzym Abcd040
21. “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
22. “God's leaders believe the impossible and move in the eternal.” - Sherry K. White
23. “I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.” - Toba Beta
24. “It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.” - Karen Marie Moning
25. “Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.” - Joan Lowery Nixon
26. “If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.” - Toba Beta
27. “If you feel afraid of magic, then you've been enchanted.” - Toba Beta
28. “Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.” - Cornelia Funke
29. “No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must bethe ultimate believer in yourself!” - Pablo
30. “I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.” - Lucy Liu
31. “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
32. “Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.” - Tom Robbins
33. “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
34. “Sa më e pabesueshme të jetë një histori, aq më lehtë e besojnë njerëzit atë.” - Christine Grän
35. “Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.” - Christopher Reeve
36. “If you still believe in magic, you're subject to enchantment.” - Toba Beta
37. “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
38. “What we beileve is what we see.” - Sukant Ratnakar
39. “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
40. “As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.” - Oscar Wilde
41. “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
42. “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
43. “While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.” - T.F. Hodge
44. “I suppose it doesn't matter what form love takes, maybe you just need to take it when it comes.” - Albert Borris
45. “You have to believe in it to get it...” - Nora Roberts
46. “Faith, sir, as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself.” - Diedrich Knichkerbocker
47. “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
48. “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
49. “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
50. “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
51. “Nothing is impossible for him who believes.” - Anonymous
52. “Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.” - E.J. Patten
53. “Man is what he believes – believe in yourself” - Dr. Amit Abraham
54. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” - Jim Valvano
55. “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
56. “Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.” - Charles R. Swindoll
57. “Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost” - Hayley Williams
58. “Fear Only Constraints Undeveloped Strength where your eyes look to within, is what your heart will believe.” - Anthony Liccione
59. “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
60. “... 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
61. “If you're still believing, then you're almost there!” - Anthony Liccione
62. “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
63. “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
64. “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
65. “Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.” - Pauline Baynes
66. “If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?” - Teresa Mummert
67. “Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank
68. “Without ambition, no goal can be met.” - Kya Aliana
69. “Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!” - Raymond Benson
70. “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
71. “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
72. “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
73. “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
74. “The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.” - Bryant McGill
75. “Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. (Unknown)” - D.J. Stutley
76. “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
77. “don't believe in past,don't believe in future,just believe in your present.” - Abhishek Chaudhary
78. “Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.” - Matt Mitchell
79. “To hell with you all, I DO believe” - Cecelia Ahern
80. “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
81. “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
82. “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
83. “Always" is a good word to believe in.” - Susan Abulhawa
84. “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
85. “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
86. “«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
87. “Trust and believe, and you will achieve.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
88. “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
89. “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
90. “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
91. “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
92. “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
93. “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
94. “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
95. “BELIEVE in yourself even if nobody else does!” - Stephanie Lahart
96. “Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?” - Jon Bon Jovi
97. “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
