Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
What you think, so you will become.
Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.
Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.
The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.
Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
Most illness begins with a negative mind.
Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.
Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.
Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
The mind requires regular use to remain strong.
First you get a habit, then it gets you.
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
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