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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
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James Allen(1864-1912, British essayist, author, As A Man Thinketh) |
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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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Claude M. Bristol(1891-1951, American author of The Magic Of Believing) |
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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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Henri Frederic Amiel(1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic) |
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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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Wally Amos(American businessman, founder of Famous Amos Cookies) |
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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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Dr. Robert Anthony(American educator) |
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| Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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Richard Bach(1936-, American author) |
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| Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
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Les Brown(1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,) |
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| Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Samuel Butler(1612-1680, British poet, satirist) |
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| Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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Walter Bagehot(1826-1977, British economist, critic) |
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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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Jim Bakker(1940-, American evangelist) |
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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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James Baldwin(1924-1987, American author) |
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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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James Baldwin(1924-1987, American author) |
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| Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Joel A. Barker(American businessman, consultant, author) |
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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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P.T. Barnum(1810-1891, American showman, entertainer, circus builder) |
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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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James M. Barrie(1860-1937, British playwright) |
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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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Saint Bartholomew |
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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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Bruce Barton(1886-1967, American author, advertising expert) |
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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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Shirley Temple Black(1928-, American film child star) |
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| Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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Ludwig Borne |
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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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Les Brown(1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,) |
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| Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.
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Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho(1935-, Tibetan 14th Dalai Lama) |
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| If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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George Earle Buckle(1854-1935, British journalist) |
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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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Buddha(568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism) |
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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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Warren Buffett(1930-, American investment entrepreneur) |
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| It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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John Burroughs(1837-1921, American naturalist, author) |
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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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Lord Byron(1788-1824, British poet) |
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| Men freely believe that which they desire.
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Julius Caesar(101-44 BC, Roman emperor) |
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| Men willingly believe what they wish.
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Julius Caesar(101-44 BC, Roman emperor) |
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| What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
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Julius Caesar(101-44 BC, Roman emperor) |
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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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Ching Ning Chu(Chinese-American businesswoman, lecturer, author) |
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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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Cannon's Law |
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| We are what we believe we are
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Benjamin N. Cardozo(1870-1938, American jurist, supreme court justice) |
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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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Curtis Carlson(American businessman, founder of Carlson Companies, Inc.) |
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| Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless until it converts itself into conduct.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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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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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
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Lewis Carroll(1832-1898, British writer, mathematician) |
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| The child must know that he is a miracle, a miracle that there hasn't been since the beginning of the world, and there won't be another like him until the end of the world. He is a unique thing, from the beginning to the end of the world.
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Pablo Casals(1876-1973, Spanish cellist, conductor, composer) |
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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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Michel De Certeau(1925-1986, French writer, historian) |
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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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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin(1881-1955, French Christian mystic, author) |
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| Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton(1874-1936, British author) |
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| There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
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Frank A. Clark |
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| Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
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Claud Cockburn(1904-1981, British author, journalist) |
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| The more you believe the more you achieve.
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Ronny M. Cole(1955-, American author, goal and reading coach) |
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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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Charles Caleb Colton(1780-1832, British sportsman writer) |
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| If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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Angel Cordero Jr. |
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| Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
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Norman Cousins(1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author) |
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| Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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Dinah Mulock Craik |
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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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Demosthenes(c.383-322 BC, Greek orator) |
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