So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on.

A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.

When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.