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

"Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild."

"Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being."

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass."

"The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony."

"Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry"

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."

"The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved."

"No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself."

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

"A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts."

"He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass."

"For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love."

"Things you might hear, Things you wanna believe, Things that aren't true, Things that people say, It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted."

"Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection."

"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears;"

"Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions."

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

"Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, "Peace, be still!"

"So you will be... What you 'will' to be"

"A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. -James Allen"

"Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself;"

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

"Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and you can find every truth connected with your being, if you will dig deep into the mine of your soul."

"If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are."

"In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute."

"...he who delights in work will not long remain unemployed."

"As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss"

"CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control."

"Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life."

"Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results."

"We don’t get what we wish and pray for, we get what we justly earn. Our wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with our thoughts and actions."

"The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene."

"He necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting-point for future power and triumph."

"Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step."

"He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;"

"He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free."

"The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves;"

"You cannot travel within and stand still without."

"As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking."

"A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life."

"Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt"

"The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous."

"There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks."

"Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought."

"They themselves are makers of themselves."

"We do not attract what we want but who we are."