“They themselves are makers of themselves.”

You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.

So you will be what you will to be.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.

A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

When it unfolds at the right moment, its destiny.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.

It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.