Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
