Thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallise into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence and slavish dependence.
The measure of a man’s truth is the measure of his love, and Truth is far removed from him whose life is not governed by Love.
Truth is nothing if not unchangeable, and in so far as a man takes his stand upon Truth does he become steadfast in virtue, does he rise superior to his passions and emotions and changeable personality.
The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.
There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
He must avoid quarrelling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it – Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Goethe.
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.
Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts make clean habits.
Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
MAN’S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.
Circumstance does not make the man;.
Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.
If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow – sure.
The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this – that man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.
Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can.
All things are mirrors in which you see yourself reflected, and the gloom which you perceive in your work is but a reflection of that mental state which you bring to it. Bring a right, an unselfish, state of heart to the.