All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.
Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.
A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.
In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
Things you might hear,Things you wanna believe,Things that aren’t true,Things that people say,It’s these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little he who would achieve much must sacrifice much he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?