The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
—Henry Drummond
You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.
—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines
They can conquer who believe they can.
—Virgil
You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?
—Shannon L. Alder
People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.
—Glennon Doyle Melton in Warrior
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
—Japanese proverb
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.
—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Man is what he believes.
—Anton Chekhov
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
—Bertrand Russell
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
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
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
—Gerry Spence
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
—John Lilly