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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.
Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993)
Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
Have a Great Day (1986)
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.
The Power of Positive Living (1992)
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.
Behavior in Organizations : Understanding & Managing the Human Side of Work (1995)
Change your thoughts and you can change the world.
Empty pockets never held anyone back...it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.
Enthusiasm makes the difference (2003)
When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.
Have a Great Day (1986)
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil — but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency — you may say goodness — of the human being.
Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.
Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.
Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. … It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.
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.
Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)
In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.
Confident Living (1948)
Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.
You Can If You Think You Can (1987)
Who is God? Some theological being? He is so much greater than theology. God is vitality. God is life. God is energy. As you breathe God in, as you visualize His energy, you will be reenergized!
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.
The New Art of Living (1986)