Success in life is becoming what you want to be.
Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.
The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.
The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.
Man’s right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich.
Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value.
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.
The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.
You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.
Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.
Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.
It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.
There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.
The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world.