“He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.”

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.

Whether you be a man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows.

You will be what you will to be.

Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.

Character is simply a habit long continued.

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

What you have done to me shows your character how I loved you regardless shows mine.