There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The battle is all over except the ‘shouting’ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
Nothing is more tragic – or more common – than mental inertia.
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
When Opportunity came, the person didn’t realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.
Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.
Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it.
Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite.
Who said it could not be done? And tell me, what great victories does he have to his credit which qualify him to judge what can and can’t be accomplished.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.
Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.
The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.