The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Belief creates the actual fact.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

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 care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Truth is what works.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.