You have absolute control over one thing, and that is your thoughts.

Before you can be sure of your ability to transmute desire into it’s monetary equivalent, you will require specialized knowledge of the service, merchandise, or profession you intend to offer in return for fortune.

Making repeated affirmations to your subconscious mind is the only known method of developing the emotion of faith voluntarily.

Faith removes limitation.

Faith is the head chemist of the mind.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

When your desires are strong enough. You will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose!

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.

Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it, therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

Tell me how you use your spare time, and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be in ten years from now.

More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Those who talk too much do little else.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way.

The cause of depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Keep your mind closed against all people who depress or discourage you in anyway.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and never the result of selfishness.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Nothing life has to offer is worth the price of worry.

The person who gives expression, by word of mouth, to negative or destructive thoughts is practically certain to experience the results of those words in the form of destructive “kick-back”.

All people have become what they are because of their dominating thoughts and desires

If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts that reach it as the result of your neglect.

Both success and failure are largely the results of habit.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant purpose

The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving

There is no other road to genius than through voluntary self-effort.

Men search all their lives for power and fame without attaining either, because they do not recognize that the real source of both is within their own minds.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Capitalistic society guarantees every person the opportunity to provide useful service and to collect riches in proportion to the value of the service

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by providing useful service.

People who cannot follow a leader intelligently cannot become efficient leaders.

The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

A quitter never wins – and a winner never quits.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony

The surest way to solve one’s personal problems is to find someone with a greater problem and help him to solve it.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word “impossible,” and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.

You are where you are and what you are because of your habits of thought.

The man who masters himself through self-discipline never can be mastered by others.

You may take full possession of the Master-Key [to Riches] by taking possession of your own mind, through the strictest of self-discipline

Study nature’s plan and you will discover that every living thing, from the smallest insect to the complicated machinery of a human being, grows and remains healthy only by constant use.

The dividing line between success and failure is found at the stage where aimless drifting ceases.

Positive egos do not grow in negative environments.

Withholding anything short of the best service of which one is capable is costly business – a fact which many have learned too late.

By helping others to find the path you will find it for yourselves!

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.

No man is limited in the quality, the quantity or the nature of the riches he may acquire, provided he is willing to give adequate value in return.

Success comes to those who become success conscious.

Our only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of our imagination.

Desire is only a thought, an impulse. It is nebulous and ephemeral. It is abstract and of no value until it has been transformed into its physical counterpart

If one does not possess persistence, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.

The person who stops studying merely because they have finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what their calling.

Any person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches.

All achievement, no matter its nature or purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

All impulses of thought have a tendency to clothe themselves in their physical equivalent

Each of us is what we are because of the dominating thoughts we permit to occupy our minds

Riches begin in the form of thought. The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion

Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge -acquiring period ends when they finish school.

Faith is the only known antidote to failure

Faith is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought.

Any impulse of thought which is repeatedly passed on to the subconscious mind is finally accepted and acted upon

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb towards some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles and used as alibis.

Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it

The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilization

Success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

There is one quality one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it

If you do not see riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat

Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average person’s familiarity with the word “impossible

Every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach

When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

I had learned from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.