We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don’t say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.
Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.
Life is a series of problems.
It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.
The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you’re standing still.
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.
The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination – continually criticizing himself for past mistakes – continually condemning himself for past sins.
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
When you’re not goal-striving, not looking forward, you’re not really living.