
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Topic: Action, Belief, Failure, Possibility
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
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.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
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.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Impossible is just an opinion.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
