A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging theirprejudices.
We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.