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The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life...
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)
When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticise ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.
Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)