Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

- Brian Tracy

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

- Carter G. Woodson

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[I]f you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

- Marian Anderson

Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

- Marsha Sinetar

A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. [From: An Ethical Philosophy of Life]

- Felix Adler

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

- Mario Cuomo

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

- Rene Descartes

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

- Thomas H. Huxley

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees wth your own reason and your own common sense.

- Buddha

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I think people always believe what they want to believe, don't you?

- Lillian Hellman

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

- William Hazlitt

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble minds harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

- Albert Einstein

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

- Louisa May Alcott

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.

- Bill Clinton



I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright



Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

- Leo Tolstoy



Alas, the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

- Thomas Carlyle



A belief is not true because it is useful.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel



God enters by a private door into every individual.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

- Thomas Paine



I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

- Thomas Paine



We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.

- William James



A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

- Winston Churchill



Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

- Lillian Hellman



Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

- Carol P. Christ



By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

- Nikos Kazantzakis



It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia.

- Sam Harris



Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

- Peter Ustinov



'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain



Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

- Douglas Adams



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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

- George Bernard Shaw



Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

- Stephen Jay Gould



A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

- Havelock Ellis



It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

- John Burroughs



I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people. [language slightly modified]

- John Lovejoy Elliott



Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick



Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage
exclusiveness, and the feeling of being especially privileged.
Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and
deeper sympathies.

- Sophia Lyon Fahs



I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

- Rudyard Kipling



The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

- D. H. Lawrence



Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

- William Allen White



In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do -- not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

- Rowan D. Williams