Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
Once you begin to believe there is help ''out there,'' you will know it to be true.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults –a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never — yes, never — sell yourself short.
Seeing is not always believing.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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