Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be.
Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
We planted flowers last year, and I didn't know if I'd be alive to see them come up.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
If you want to be a big company tomorrow, you have to start acting like one today.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.
I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun, but I can twirl one. It looks good.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
It is easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile, when everything goes dead wrong.
To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed, at least one must pretend to.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
