This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all -- they are simply passed over and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, It's no use -- I can't do it.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life -- to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

Resentment is a mental resistance to, a non-acceptance of, something which has already happened ... an emotional rehashing, or re-fighting of some event in the past. You cannot win, because you are attempting to do the impossible -- change the past.

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.