Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

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.

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.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

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

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

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

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.