David Joseph Schwartz Quotes

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

You can do anything you think you can.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

They can because they think they can.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it.

The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.

Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.

If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

They are able because they think they are able.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

I'd say the biggest difference is knowing you can do something. You can sit here and say, 'I believe I can get a hundred tomorrow'. But it's a different statement to say, 'I know I can get a hundred tomorrow'. That's something I try to think about.

Many things we can't do are simply because we think we can't do them.

Belief in limits creates limited people

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.