It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.