Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
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.
It takes a habit to replace a habit.