Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Belief creates the actual fact.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Time itself comes in drops.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.