“Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your goal.”

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

People don’t have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be – whether they will admit that or not.

If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

Security isn’t what the wise person looks for – it’s opportunity.

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that’s in you.

Watch what everyone else does–do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

What happens inside always appears outside.

Goals reflect your choice of destination.

That’s the secret: be interesting. If you can’t be interesting, shut up. There’s nothing wrong with silence.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them.

If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.