“Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.”

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself … nothing is impossible!

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

If you’ve been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.”

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

I don’t love you anymore. But each time you begin to fade it makes my heart feel numb.

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It’s been a form of entertainment.

Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.