Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

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

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.