Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort,the diadem of thought.By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends.By the aid of animality,indolence,impurity,corruption,and confusion of thought a man descends.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Things you might hear,Things you wanna believe,Things that aren’t true,Things that people say,It’s these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughtsand actions can never produce good results … We understand this law inthe natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the...

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and...

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength...

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel...

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent...

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are...

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest...

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the...

To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all – such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day...

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.