 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. |
| You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. |
| No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. |
| 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. |
| A man is literally what he thinks. |
| 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 stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. |
| The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. |
| 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. |
| All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. Topics: Life |
| 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. |
| To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. |
| 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. |
| No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. |
| 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. |
| Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. |
| 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. |
| Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. |
| For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? |
| Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. |
