Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Belief creates the actual fact.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Truth is what works.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Time itself comes in drops.