Quotes About Belief

You become what you think about all day long.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.