
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- Topic: Belief, Dreams
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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 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.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Looking at the stars always makes me dream.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
