Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.