Convincing Yourself Quotes

• 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

  Differences, Unhappy, Make You Happy

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

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

  Max Tegmark

  Trying, Guarantees, Impossible

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

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Trying

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• 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

  Desire, Want, Determined

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

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• Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you keep convincing yourself the press, the libs, the universities - hell, everyone but a few on the religious fringe and big business - are out to get you. I was lucky - I started to snap out of this a couple of years ago and hopefully will now apply to both major parties the same skepticism and cynicism I had in the past reserved for Democrats.

  John Cole

  Religious, Couple, Party

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