“It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.”
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Leontief, quoted in: Carter, A.P. (1996), "Technology, Employment and the Distribution of Income: Leontief af 90," Economic Systems Research, Vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 315.

“Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.”
Source: I Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence

“Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.”
Stay Alive All Your Life (1957)
Context: By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons. By success I mean the development of mature and constructive personality.
Through the application of the principle of constructive thinking you can attain your worthy goals. The natural outcome of living by creative principles is creative results. Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

“Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.”
Source: The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), Ch. 46, Resting Places, I

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

“If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.”

Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
What History Tells Us, Chapter: Task of the Historian, p. 25
History, What History Tells Us