When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.
The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.
The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.
The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.
That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.
Make your optimism come true.
Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.
Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.