If you believe you can’t you likely won’t.

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.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

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

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.