Believe it and achieve it.
There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does “something different.” Take the hint and “individualize” yourself with some distinctive idea.
The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn’t hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.
Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.
Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.
To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.
Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself.
Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.