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“Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Delayed gratification is making a choice, constantly convincing yourself to hold back and pursuing immediate gain or profit.”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“It is a rather remarkable trick of the mind that there can be a wicked little voice that whispers in your ear that you’ve done it before and nothing happened, so why not do it again? Everything will be OK, it says. Things are bad now, but something will turn up. The good will prevail, you’ll be rescued, you’ll find the answer at the last minute. No one dies in a story…”

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Book:The Fairy's Tale

Source: The Fairy's Tale

“A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.”

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Author:Pierre Omidyar

“If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.”

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Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you keep convincing yourself the press, the libs, the universities - hell, everyone but a few on the religious fringe and big business - are out to get you. I was lucky - I started to snap out of this a couple of years ago and hopefully will now apply to both major parties the same skepticism and cynicism I had in the past reserved for Democrats.”

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

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Book:Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.”

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Book:Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Source: Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality