“The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.”

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfied by fear.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

You can accomplish great things.

All exercises that you do with your own bodyweight are great.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.