Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.

Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.