Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.Collection: Business
Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential.Collection: Life
Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.Collection: Inspirational
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.Collection: Adversity
By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.Collection: Life
Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.Collection: Life
Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.Collection: Church
New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.Collection: Loyalty
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.Collection: Yield
The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.Collection: Successful
The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.Collection: Return
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.Collection: Time
Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.Collection: Thankful
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.Collection: Life
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.Collection: Inspirational
Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.Collection: Work
Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serveCollection: Love
There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.Collection: Life
You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.Collection: Exercise
You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.Collection: Thinking
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.Collection: Perseverance
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.Collection: Stress
Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.Collection: Life
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life . . . significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.Collection: Heart
Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.Collection: Desire
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.Collection: Trust
Actions are destiny's pen.Collection: Destiny
To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.Collection: Answers
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.Collection: Effort
Your mind grows through use.Collection: Goal
If you are willing, great things are possible to you.Collection: Great Things
Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.Collection: Work
You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.Collection: Business
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.Collection: Confidence
The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.Collection: Happiness
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.Collection: Book
Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.Collection: Believe
A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.Collection: Rumor
It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.Collection: Lying
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.Collection: Determination
A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.Collection: Business
You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.Collection: Integrity
You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.Collection: Book
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.Collection: Happiness
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting itCollection: Judgement
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.Collection: Inspirational
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.Collection: Wise
A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.Collection: Wise
Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.Collection: Giving
Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.Collection: Book