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.
The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.
Every problem contains the seed of its own solution.
It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith.
Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.
The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.
Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.