Belief in Success Quotes

Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it.

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.

My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

I don't think you ever hear anybody shoot the last shot and say they didn't think it was in.

... think a thought you can accept. "My success is coming to me now," or "all things lead to my success."

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.

When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought – that surprised me because I wasn’t the best player. John Thomas was better than me, and I was probably second or third best player. And I kept thinking, “Why am I going to be the captain?” I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, “The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up.”

Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

This is a fantastic fight for the championship. I'm really confident and believe we can do it.

Being in this industry is so crazy that I don't even know if I could be in it if I didn't have faith. You have to have some level of it to want to keep doing this. Everyone who's been in this long enough has some sort of practice.

I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as a filmmaker is to tell someone that might not think it's going to work that, actually, it will work.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.

The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy.

Everybody believes they can win now. That's why there are so many upsets in the Grand Slams.

Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

I am an optimist about America.