Self-belief (quotes)

If you think you can, you can

  • They can because they think they can. Virgil
  • He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha
  • If you think you can then you can. Stephen Richards
  • If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it. Claude M. Bristol
  • Whether you believe you can do a thing or believe you cannot, you are right. Henry Ford
  • If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. Denis Waitley
  • Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
  • Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill
  • Your belief creates the fact. James Allen
  • Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe. Mark Victor Hansen
  • Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. Dr. David Schwartz
  • The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. James Allen
  • The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash
  • If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Gandhi
  • Conceive + Believe = Achieve. Denis Waitley
  • They conquer who believe they can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believeth. Bible
  • What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Tony Robbins
  • Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. Abraham Lincoln
  • Self-esteem contemplates what needs to be done and says, ‘I can.’ Pride contemplates what has been accomplished and says, ‘I did. Nathaniel Branden
  • Belief,  Self-confidence,  Possibility,  Preparation
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If you think you can’t, you can’t

  • Success comes in cans, not in cannots. Joel H. Weldon
  • Knock the “t” off the “can’t.” Samuel Johnson
  • Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash
  • A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize. Martin Seligman
  • If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.  Emile Coue
  • [Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail. Yoda
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Therefore, believe in yourself…

  • Here is the first step toward success. It’s a basic step. It can’t be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed. David Schwartz
  • Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. E. Cummings
  • Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
  • Every achiever that I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me. Robert H. Schuller
  • What are you waiting for? You’re faster than this. Don’t think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me. Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix
  • We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie
  • You have to believe in yourself. Sun Tzu
  • Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm S. Forbes
  • Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton
  • Until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life!  Rocky Balboa
  • Believing in yourself never goes out of style. Elle Woods
  • First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe. Norman Vincent Peale
  • Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature. Vernon Howard
  • The secret to selling yourself is to have a product you believe in.  Wayne Dyer
  • Step forward into your life as you did when you were a child, when you believed anything was possible. Vince Gowmon
  • Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. Robert Brault
  • Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by the belief in your heart. Robert Collier
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…for you have more power and potential than you know…

  • If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison
  • I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de- geniused rapidly.  Buckminster Fuller
  • Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. Mark Twain
  • We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree – deeply rooted to withstand all of life’s upheavals. Dodinsky
  • Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you change your beliefs. Maxwell Maltz
  • You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. Darwin P. Kingsley
  • Power,  Potential
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…and yourself belief will be self-fulfilling

  • Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. Lydia M. Child
  • Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do. Les Brown
  • Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Robert Collier
  • Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale
  • When you believe you can do it, the ‘how-to-do-it’ develops. Eric Butterworth
  • “I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything. “I will try” has performed miracles. George P. Burnham
  • If you think you can’t, you will likely prove it by not even trying. Che Garman
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Anything is possible if you believe strongly enough

  • Anything is possible if a person believes. Mark 9:23
  • Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in. Jane Roberts
  • The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it- as long as you believe 100 percent. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • What wonderful power, what a newness of life and of power of expression, is waiting for those who really believe. Ernest Holmes
  • Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernhard Berenson
  • The only limits that you have are the limits which you have set for yourself in your own mind. Adam McLeod
  • You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs. Yours is the creative energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in. Jane Roberts
  • Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash
  • Before you can do something that you’ve never done before, you have to imagine it’s possible. Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • Possibility
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The only limits that you have are the limits which you have set for yourself in your own mind

  • The only lack or limitation is in your own mind. H. Moos
  • The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons. Hans Holzer
  • The only limits that you have are the limits which you have set for yourself in your own mind. Adam McLeod
  • The biggest mental roadblocks that you will ever have to overcome are those represented by your self-limiting beliefs. Brian Tracy
  • The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can’t have it. Tony Robbins
  • Nothing is impossible unless you think it is. Paramahansa Yogananda
  • 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. Richard M. DeVos
  • Our beliefs can move us forward in life – or they can hold us back. Oprah Winfrey
  • Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl
  • It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. Hanoch McCarty
  • A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. John Powell
  • You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it. Robert Anthony
  • The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.  Robert H. Schuller
  • Limitation
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Harness the power of faith and hope to help you believe

  • At the back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. Henry Miller
  • Hope, modern researchers are finding, does more than offer a bit of solace amid affliction; it plays a surprisingly potent role in life. Hope is believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be. Daniel Goleman
  • Hope,  Faith
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