Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.
Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed.
Knowledge is power only when put to use – and then only when the use made of it is constructive.
The mind is what the mind is fed.
When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too.
Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.
Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.
Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let’s mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.
Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone’s good luck. You’ll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.
Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.
Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class – think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.
It’s better to wear out than rust out.
Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.
How much we can do, depends on how much we THINK we can do.
Get the action habit – you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.
Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.
How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.