Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
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Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that’s more terrible than dying—more terrible than dying young.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
Unless you believe you will not understand.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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.
Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
