“In parting, I would remind you that “Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!”

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.”

“war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”

“If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.”

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;until you have culrivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy”

“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”

“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule.”

“Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they “arrive.” The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves.”

“no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself.”

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”

“Opinions” are the cheapest commodities on earth.”

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.”

“A quitter never wins—and— a winner never quits.”

“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.”

“No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”

“If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.”

“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”

“Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.”

“What the mind can conceive, it can ACHIEVE!”

“There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit”

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

“Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuums of any sort. All space must be and is filled with something . . . When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.”

“You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.”

“‎If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!”

“Success come to those who become success conscious.”

“TO do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination without distraction. -Thomas A. Edison.”

“Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.”

“The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver.”

“A definite purpose, backed by absolute faith, is a form of wisdom and wisdom in action produces positive results.”

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

“INDECISION is the seedling of FEAR!”

“Failure cannot cope with persistence.”

“thoughts are things”

“Love is, without question, life’s greatest experience.”

“There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!”

“The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.”

“The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.”

“If you fill your mind with FEAR, doubt and unbelief in your ability to connect with, and use the forces of Infinite Intelligence, the law of auto-suggestion will take this spirit of unbelief and use it as a pattern by which your subconscious mind will translate it into its physical equivalent.”

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

“The object of your definite chief aim should become your "hobby." You should ride this "hobby" continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.”

“FEAR is the tool of a man-made devil.”

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

“Thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire...”

“Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power!”

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.”

“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.”

“Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they ‘arrive’.”