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.
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 mast...
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 will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
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.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
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.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
A man is literally what he thinks.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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.
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
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.
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.
