He who readily believes, will be readily disappointed.
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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.
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.
Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
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?
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.
Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
No man should be angry with what is true.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
