David J. Schwartz

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Inspirational
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Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Perfect
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How much we can do, depends on how much we THINK we can do.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Thinking
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Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: College
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People do more for you when you make them feel important.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: People
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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Dream
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Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Ideas
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When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Motivational
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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never...yes, never...sell yourself short.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Motivational
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How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Leadership
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How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Thinking
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A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here's something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off, postpone.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Pain
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Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Knowledge
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Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Thinking
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Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can't, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.
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Collection: Thinking
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Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories
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Collection: Winning
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Attitudes are more important than intelligence.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Attitude
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To think confidently, act confidently... Act the way you want to feel.
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Collection: Thinking
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Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Happiness
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Those who believe they can move mountains, do!
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Ideas
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The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Thinking
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Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.
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Collection: Air
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Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.
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Collection: Optimistic
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It’s better to wear out than rust out.
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Collection: Birthday
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The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.
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Collection: Impossible
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Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Men
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The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Healing
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Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.
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Collection: Religious
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Believe it can be done. When you really believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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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.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.
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Collection: Progress
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Belief releases creative powers.
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Collection: Creative
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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Success
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Build castles, don't dig graves.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Castles
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Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Action
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Believe triggers the power to do.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Believe
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Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Thinking
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Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Tasks
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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Good Luck
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When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too.
- David J. Schwartz
Collection: Inspirational