It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.
Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.
If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.
A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.
Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine.
The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.
Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.
A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.
Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.
Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies and spreads his thoughts over so many subjects and in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision and weakness.
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises against the wind of Adversity, not with it.
The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!
It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.
Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self -- his true, inner self -- through temporary defeat.
Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats.
Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
You give before you get.
Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.
Love is, without question life's greatest experience.
NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.
Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
Faith is the only known antidote for failure!
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.
Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
Longer Version:
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.
Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.
Longer Version:
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.
There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself -- some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.
No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.
Longer Version:
No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual in the group.
Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.
Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.
No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.
You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.
If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.
The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.
Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.
Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.
No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!
The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.
Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.
The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.