When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

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.

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .