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.
Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.
Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.
You can do it if you believe you can.
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
No manʼs education is ever finished. A manʼs reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot mentally develop.
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
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.
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.
Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
A burning desire to be, and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.
FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.
The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.
Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.
One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
Unlimited power may be available when two or more people coordinate their thoughts and actions in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose.
Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
Men of action usually win -- that is one of their distinctive features.
You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
Your own mental attitude is your real boss.
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
The person who works harder when the boss isn't around is headed straight for a better job.
If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.
Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
Plan your work and work your plan.
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.
Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.
You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have.
Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.
Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.
The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.
You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.
Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity -- regardless of what others may do -- you are destined for greatness.
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.
Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.
What you think, so you will become.
O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You either control your mind or it controls you.
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it.
The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.
Failure cannot cope with persistence.
You become what you think about.
Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.