The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Belief creates the actual fact.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Truth is what works.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Time itself comes in drops.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.