Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of...

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new...

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.

Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done – it’s downhill from then on.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious...

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal...

Change your thoughts, and you change your world

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Live your life and forget your age.

Picturize, prayerize, actualize

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Four things for success: Work and pray, think and believe.

One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is

Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

We tend to get what we expect.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture…Do not build up obstacles in...

The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ”I believe,” three times.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind,deliberately voice a positive one to cancel it out.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow

It’s always too early to quit.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the...

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

You would think that economy would be one of the easiest habits in the world to break but it isn’t.

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.