Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you’ve got and it will give you all it’s got, which will be plenty.
The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.
Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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.