The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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

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

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

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

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

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

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

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

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

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

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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