Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
—Coco Chanel
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
—Philip K. Dick
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
—Gail Devers
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
—Bertrand Russell
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
—Oscar Wilde
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
—Bertrand Russell
I do not believe in God, but I have a sense of the infinite.
—Robert Desnos
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
—H. L. Mencken
A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
—Joseph Conrad
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
—Douglas Adams
Everybody has a personal truth. A personal truth is what you believe about yourself when nobody’s listening and nobody’s watching.
—Phillip C. McGraw
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
—Tom Robbins
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
—Bertrand Russell
The best proof of love is trust.
—Joyce Brothers