“We tend to get what we expect.”

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Good things aren’t supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

House of Balloons’ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations.