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Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.
Oct 1, 2025
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.
I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.
I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.
I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.
I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.
I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.
If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it.
Stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.
I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.
If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.
A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.
You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.
If you TRY, and you just BELIEVE, you CAN; you WILL.
I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.
You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.
Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.
I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.
My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see you as the choicest spirits ever placed on the earth. The promises in your generation's patriarchal blessings, if you are faithful, seem to exceed the promises in Sister Faust's blessing and in mine. ...I want you to know that I believe in you. I believe you can be in the world but not of the world.
The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it.
Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities. You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.
There's not much difference between a fantasist and a visionary. We all have dreams and without dreams in business, I don't believe you can be successful. The trick is to turn them into reality.
I believe you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.
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.
Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can’t imitate people’s aura.
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.
Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.
Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.
If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you'll be amazed at what you can do.
Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want
Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'
What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.