Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.
Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices – either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.
Don’t bother. The glass is half-empty.
When learning stops, decay sets in.
People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.
Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.
To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It’s as simple as that.
Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.
Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.
Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.
Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.
Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.