Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

Expect the best and get it.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Listen for the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. And then? Well, the sky is the limit!

The word “no” denotes a shutting of the door.

As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities

Think positively about yourself…. ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Any action is better than no action at all.

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you’ll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you’ll shake it to pieces.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

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

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Cherish your family connections. They are one of God’s greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

Believe it is possible to solve your problem.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders.

Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person’s life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.

God loves you. God doesn’t want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

Happiness will never come if it’s a goal in itself.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America’s problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The whole trend and quality of anyone’s life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.

Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself.

Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable.

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.

You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

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.

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.

Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people’s lives and change and lift them up.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

A peaceful mind generates power.

One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility

Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God’s help.

A basic law the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on

Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is–pray and believe.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you’ve got and it will give you all it’s got, which will be plenty.

Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

Take a new look at your present “impossible.” Consider positive ways to handle it.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

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.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself … nothing is impossible!

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

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.

We tend to get what we expect.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

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. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

It’s always too early to quit.

The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

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

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what’s right. The better we know ourselves the less we’ll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Live your life and forget your age.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

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.