“If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck”
Ridley Pearson (1953) American writer
Source: Disney after Dark
“If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you?”
Attributed to Korda in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 52, the earliest occurrence of such phrasing yet located is by Martin Lawrence, in "What Up?" in Upscale : The Successful Black Magazine (February 1993), p. 79: "If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."
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