The only thing you have left when no one believes in you is whether you believe in yourself.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

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.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.

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.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

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.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.