What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
To kill time is not murder, it’s suicide.
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.