
Act the part and you will become the part.
- Topic: Action, Belief
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Action expresses priorities.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
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.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Unless you believe you will not understand.
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.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
