Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you are right.
- Topic: Perception, Thinking
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Henry Ford
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money to do more for the betterment of life.
More Quotes from Glacier National Park
More on These Topics
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
