“When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.”

Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

I feel like I inspire more people than I think I do. I just need to remember that.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We’re just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

I really believe Jesus’s forgiveness is the answer to our shame and our feelings of helplessness.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Believe in yourself and don’t let nobody stop you from doin’ what you gotta do.