“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.”

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.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.