You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.