Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.