Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.
Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.
You have not failed until you quit trying.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Don’t say, “If I could, I would.” Say, “If I can, I will.”
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.
I used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Stand guard at the door of your mind.
Don’t get stuck where you are, keep growing. It’s a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life.