“If you’ll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you’ll be astonished at the changes you’ll see.”

You can predict a persons future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

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.

You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.

There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they’re not afraid of it.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.

Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.