The man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
No man need stay the way he is.
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: “Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray.”
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. – Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
What a testing of character adversity is.
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.