You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.
Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge, and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.
A word to the wise isn’t as good as a word from the wise.
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.
Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.
You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise.
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.
Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.
The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.
You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.
Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.
The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.
You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.
You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.
Your mind grows through use.
To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.
People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.
Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.