Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
The big question isn’t whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.
If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
It’s always too early to quit.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.