Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
All I want to do is change the world.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
Prayer is man’s greatest power!
Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate – yes, give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.