True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
Adopt the motto: It doesn’t matter who’s right, but what’s right.
The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.
Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.
It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you’re moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you’re standing still.
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
Times will change for the better when you change.
Happiness is the art of relaxation.
Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
Every day you must try to make yourself grow. This you can do.
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it’s moving forward towards something.
You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.
To really ‘live,’ that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to ‘you.’