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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
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Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
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Everything is possible for him who believes.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
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Men freely believe that which they desire.
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
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We are what we believe we are
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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
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You'll see it when you believe it.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.
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Belief gets in the way of learning.
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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You must see first before you can believe.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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