In the words of William James:
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
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