Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.
Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.
It takes a habit to replace a habit.
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
You either control your mind or it controls you.
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.
You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?
Most illness begins with a negative mind.
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
If you do a job another’s way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.
Riches don’t respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.