Belief Quotes

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Life, Help, Living

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Deep, Happen, Once

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin

Die, Soul, Goes

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama

Power, Nonsense, Miracle

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Truth, Wise

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength, Soul, Grows

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Fact, Actual, Creates

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Successful, Important, Building

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs

Great, Different, Path

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung

Reason, Difficult, Word

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Self, Interest

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

Good, Live, End

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.
Joan of Arc

Life, Live, Sacrifice

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Great, Perhaps

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James

Change, Fear, Past

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine

God, Makes, Cruel

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

Ignorance, End, Injustice

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

Wisdom, Ignorance, Democracy

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

Death, Knowledge, Human

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier

Ignorance, Envy, Lack

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

Person, Equal, Interests

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent Peale

Simple, Person, Through

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

Best, May, Number

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, God, Stupid

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
Barack Obama

Time, History, War

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers

Dreams, Faith, Work

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life, Hope, Beyond

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood

Faith, Trust, Proof

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