“We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.”

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Don’t take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you – be nice to them. Don’t sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don’t have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.