All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Think and grow rich.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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.
You give before you get.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.