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Convincing Yourself Quotes

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

Max Tegmark
Convincing Yourself, Trying, Guarantees
Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.29, Vintage

A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

Pierre Omidyar
Convincing Yourself, Ideas, People
"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

Napoleon Hill
Convincing Yourself, Desire, Want
Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.25, Penguin

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

Jodi Picoult
Convincing Yourself, Differences, Unhappy
Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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