1. “ Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
2. “It’s always too soon to quit!”
3. “Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.”
4. “Be too big for worry, and too noble for anger.”
5. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
6. “Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.”
7. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
8. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
9. “The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
10. “Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all—don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.”
11. “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities—always see them, for they’re always there.”
12. “The way to happiness—keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry; live simply, expect little, give much; scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week, and you will be surprised.”
13. “What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
14. “Look at the sunny side of everything.”
15. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
16. “I don’t believe in defeat.”
17. “Plant seeds of expectation in your mind. Cultivate thoughts that anticipate . Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”
18. “Forget the of the past and press onto the greater achievements of the future.”
19. “When you get up in the morning, you have two choices—either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.”
20. “Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord’s hands it is the Lord’s will and it is good.”
21. “When you wholeheartedly adopt a ‘with all your heart’ attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.”
22. “Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.”
23. “A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.”
24. “Live your life and forget your age.”
25. “The trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons.”
26. “We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected—that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”
27. “This is a dynamic and mysterious universe, and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables of which we are only dimly aware.”
28. “Coincidences may seem strange, but they are never a result of caprice. They are orderly laws in the spiritual life of man. They affect and influence our lives profoundly.”
29. “Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings, but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.”
30. “The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.”
31. “Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
32. “So help yourself to life. There is a generous supply for you. Take hold of life, which is life indeed.”
33. “If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
34. “Remember that ‘Help us grow this grass’ is a far more effective sign than ‘Keep off the grass.’”
35. “Americans used for liberty; now, we bleat like sheep for security.”
36. “People who belittle people, will be little people, and will accomplish very little.”
37. “Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.”
38. “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.”
39. “Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.”
40. “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.”
41. “Focus on people and the needs they have.”
42. “A book is a present that you can open again and again.”
43. “He was suffering from self-love—a chief cure for which is the practice of love for others.”
44. “If you believe big, you move things out of the realm of the impossible into the realm of the possible.”
45. “Learn to relax. Your body is precious as it houses your mind and spirit. begins with a relaxed body.”
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46. “You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.”
47. “Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings!”
48. “You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite.”
49. “How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself—so always think positively.”
50. “Hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results.”
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51. “People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.”
52. “Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.”
53. “Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.”
54. “Practice happy thinking everyday. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”
55. “Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
56. “You do not need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.”
57. “Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used.”
58. “When the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will, in effect, find a sign on the door of your mind reading ‘occupied.’”
59. “Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”
60. “Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him.”
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61. “The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.”
62. “Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear.”
63. “People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.”
64. “We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think.”
65. “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning, and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
66. “What you can imagine, you will be, in the long run.”
67. “A lot of people live under a cloud. But up above the clouds, the sun is always shining.”
68. “To be a true optimist, you have to be rugged and tough in mind.”
69. “An optimist is a person who believes in a good outcome even when he can’t yet see it. He is a person who believes in a greater day when there is yet no evidence of it. He is one who believes in his own future when he can’t see much possibility in it.”
70. “You bring to yourself what you believe.”
71. “Start looking for joy and you’ll find it.”
72. “Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
73. “A peaceful mind generates power.”
74. “He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.”
75. “Get interested in something! Absolutely enthralled in something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
76. “Attitudes are more important than facts.”
77. “Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things—first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
78. “Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the heart.”
79. “Knock the ‘T’ off the word ‘Can’t.’ You can do anything—anything—if you think you can!”
80. “If you face life with the sincere faith that through the aid of the Almighty you can overcome your troubles, then you will keep defeat at arm’s length.”
81. “Let nothing trouble you. Let nothing worry you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.”
82. “One of the most powerful concepts—one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence—is the thought that God is actually with you and helping you.”
83. “This is one of the simplest teachings in religion—namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through.”
84. “No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it, simply affirm, ‘God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.’”
85. “Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”
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86. “Constantly send up into the overcast that is blanketing your mind bright thoughts of faith, love, hope, thoughts of God, thoughts about the greatness of life.”
87. “Everyone has potential. God put it in you.”
88. “When you get that life, you begin to develop a subtle insight; your mind gets sharpened. You get what is known as God’s guidance, and you develop perceptiveness.”
89. “Christianity is the religion of the incredible, the religion of the astonishing, the religion of the breathless.”
90. “All preaching should have practical applications, for Christianity is a way of life that really works—when it’s lived properly.”
91. “The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith.”
92. “If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
93. “Your religious education is your instrument panel for safe navigation through the long flight of the years.”
94. “When clouds gather, develop, and trouble looms, if you lose faith in your instruments, you can be lost. But if you have faith in the teachings of the Bible, in prayer, in the church, in goodness, love, and hope, your instruments will bring you through.”
95. “You can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power.”
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96. “Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.”
97. “When you pray for anyone, you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”
98. “When you send out a prayer for another person, you employ the force inherent in a spiritual universe.”
99. “Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.”
100. “The creative thought principle is very important, for as Gautama declared, ‘The mind is everything; what you think, you become.’”
101. “Unfairness, injustice, hate, , sickness, weakness, infidelity—such are the enemies of human beings.”
102. “Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”
103. “Prayerize, visualize, actualize—that is the formula for successful imaging.”
104. “Practice seeing yourself not as weak, wishy-washy, and vacillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.”
105. “You cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.”
106. “It is always there for the person who will surrender his life to the Lord and keep on doing so when difficulties arise.”
107. “The final and best antidote for worry is simply this—imagine Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.”
108. “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.”
109. “If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.”
110. “Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”
111. “So I urge you, in your own way, start on the search for believing and get for yourself the surest guarantee of success and lasting happiness.”
112. “If you want quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were—and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.”
113. “Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.”
114. “When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”
115. “No person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self.”
116. “Having no proper belief in themselves, they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become.”
117. “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.”
118. “Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow; but any action is better than no action at all.”
119. “As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”
120. “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.”
121. “Indeed, the more spiritually minded you become, the more acute your contact will be with these behind-the-scenes forces.”
122. “Don’t bother. The glass is half-empty.”
123. “The hammer shatters glass, but forges steel.”
124. “Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”
125. “The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.”
126. “One never does wrong by doing right.”
127. “Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.”
128. “If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years, that there is nothing you can do about it.”
129. “‘Can you help me?’ Well, I said, ‘Perhaps I can help you help yourself.’”
130. “If you want to get somewhere, you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.”
131. “Let the challenge of your ambitions—of your aspirations—rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.”
132. “People who assume failure tend to have the failure.”
133. “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
134. “A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline.”
135. “Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.”
136. “To become a happy person, have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”
137. “No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
138. “You, too, have what it takes to be happy and confident in the face of adverse circumstances.”
139. “Imagination is the true carpet.”
140. “The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.”
141. “The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business.”
142. “Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done—it’s downhill from then on.”
143. “You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe, then all things are possible.”
144. “The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances, but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.”
145. “Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.”
146. “Any occupation, any job, has excitement in it if you have some excitement in you.”
147. “It’s a strange principle, but it’s true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give.”
