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Quotes About Belief

Faith is the best substitute for genius; in fact, it is closely allied to genius.
~ Orison Swett Marden
You will find a stimulating effect in always considering yourself as lucky or fortunate. It is a great thing to form a habit of expecting good from every experience in life. Just think what it means to have everybody think you are lucky and expect that what you undertake will turn out well!
~ Orison Swett Marden
I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate, For lo, my own shall come to me. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me. What matter if I stand alone? I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall reap where it hath sown, What is mine shall know my face. Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from me.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Don't be afraid to think too highly of yourself. If the Creator made you and is not ashamed of the job, certainly you should not be. He pronounced His work good, and you should respect it.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Fijarnos limitaciones a nosotros mismos es uno de los pecados capitales de la humanidad.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Believe in yourself; you may succeed when others do not believe in you, but never when you do not believe in yourself.
~ Orison Swett Marden
What can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down? Poverty cannot dishearten him, misfortune deter him, or hardship turn him a hair's breadth from his course. Whatever comes, he keeps his eye on the goal and pushes ahead.
~ Orison Swett Marden
but you must see a new world before you can live in it. It is to what you see, to what you believe, to what you struggle incessantly to attain, that you will approximate.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Who would back you in a race While defeat is in your face?
~ Orison Swett Marden
Success comes through a perfectly scientific mental process. The man who becomes prosperous believes that he is going to be prosperous. He has faith in his ability to make money. He does not start out with his mind filled with doubts and fears, and all the time talk poverty and think poverty, walk like a pauper and dress like a pauper. He turns his face towards the thing he is trying for and is determined to get, and will not admit its opposite picture in his mind.
~ Orison Swett Marden
It is human nature to help a man along the way he is going; if he is going up, the world will boost him; if he is going down, the world will kick him. If a man lacks faith in himself, the world will lack faith in him.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Every child should be taught to expect success, and to believe that he was born to achieve, as the acorn is destined to become an oak. It is cruel for parents and teachers to tell children that they are dull or stupid, or that they are not like others of their age.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. --HELEN KELLER
~ Orison Swett Marden
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces." The face is carved from within by invisible tools; our thoughts, our moods, our emotions are the chisels.
~ Orison Swett Marden
We can have little faith in the youth who is always crying out against his condition, and telling an incredulous world what great things he could do if his lot were different.
~ Orison Swett Marden
We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;
~ Orison Swett Marden
We cannot get away from the fact that it is impossible for us to be very different from our convictions. It is hard for a physician to keep a patient alive who believes he is going to die and that nothing can save him. The bodily conditions follow his faith.
~ Orison Swett Marden
It is to what you see, to what you believe, to what you struggle incessantly to attain, that you will approximate.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man, the one who is never certain of himself; who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account. It
~ Orison Swett Marden
If we wish to appeal to the best, if we wish to draw the best out of others, we must look for the best in them; we must think the best of them; we must trust them; we must believe in them. The man who smiles and sees the best in everything and everybody is the man who draws the best out of others. He attracts others and wins out in life, while the gloomy, sour face repels everyone.
~ Orison Swett Marden
to inspire his men, wont about among the plague-stricken soldiers, touching their wounds with his bare hands. He said that the man who had no fear would never be stricken with the plague. he believed that the mind is master of the body. If there was over a believer in the almost omnipotent power of the mind and of the will, it was Napoleon.
~ Orison Swett Marden
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
~ Orson Scott Card
You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
~ Orson Scott Card
Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
~ Orson Scott Card