To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.