“I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.”

“Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.”

Alex Trebek (1940) Canadian-American television personality

“I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

“I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny”

Sam Shepard (1943–2017) American playwright and actor

“In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.”

Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer

“I don’t believe in luck, I create my own circumstances.”

Ralph Smart

“I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)