Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.