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 | "By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop
greatness of character." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Years.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Judgment.
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| "The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring
increased happiness to you." | |
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Found in the topic Manners.
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| "Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that
work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living." | |
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Found in the topic Goals.
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| "Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual
deeds." | |
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Found in the topic Deeds.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Begin.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Self.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality,
sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world
around you." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "It should be encouraging to you to know that if you are now
confronted by any kind of problem, personal or otherwise, there is a way
to solve it, and you will find the way as rapidly and as surely as you
apply to it the principles of divine truth." | |
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Found in the topic Problem.
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| "Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is
disintegration." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you
to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a
sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your
opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something
worthwhile." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with
your own way of thinking." | |
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Found in the topic Depend.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what
you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is
surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of
appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault
of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for
others." | |
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Found in the topic Present.
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