The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

A man is literally what he thinks.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Meditation is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions all heavenly environment of these if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built

The very fact that you are a complainer shows that you deserve your lot.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known but tries to hide them is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Above all be of single aim have a legitimate and useful purpose and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.