The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not fill the places they are holding; they belong to a former age and a lower stage or plane of life, and their tendency is toward degeneration.
If you are not in an environment where there is scope for your best powers and talents you can move in due time; but meanwhile you can be great where you are. Lincoln was as great when he was a backwoods lawyer as when he was President; as a backwoods lawyer he did common things in a great way, and that made him President. Had he waited until he reached Washington to begin to be.
You need not hesitate about asking largely. “It is your Father’s pleasure to give you the kingdom,” said Jesus.
Knowledge of truth is not often reached by the processes of reason. It was due to a spiritual insight.
Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.
You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear.
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
But do not be servile; never be a flunkey; and above all things avoid the intellectual prostitution which is the vice of our times in many trades and most professions. I mean by this the being a mere hired apologist for and defender of immorality, graft, dishonesty, or vice in any form. The intellectual prostitute may rise in the service, but he is a lost soul.
There is nothing wrong with anything; there is nothing wrong with anybody.
God gives you all there is; your only question is how much to take of the unlimited supply.
God stands ready to give you wealth, mental and spiritual power, and perfect health.
It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of the soul, but not if you desire them for the lusts of the flesh. Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform. There.
Do, every day, ALL that can be done that day.
Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. Genius is more than talent.
We must remember that this is not a bad world but a good world in the process of becoming.
Without faith, it is impossible for you to become great.
See that you give them a use value greater than the cash value you are taking from them.
Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again.
Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.