Great Throughts Treasury

"Do it now."

"To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage."

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

"All I want to do is change the world, make it a better place for this and future generations."

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

"Don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."

"All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time."

"Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

"Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."

"Big doors swing on little hinges."

"Because you know what you want, there is a tendency for you to try to get on the right track and head in the right direction. You get into action."

"Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success or are they holding you back?"

"Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!"

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement"

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

"Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) — you will be kind and receive kind words."

"Events tend to recur in cycles."

"For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage."

"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they come to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met."

"Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) — you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses."

"Give encouragement (the incentive to action) you will have courage and be encouraged."

"Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful."

"Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) and you'll smile and receive smiles."

"Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) — you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you."

"Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) — you will be worthy and richly rewarded."

"I feel happy! I feel healthy! I feel ter-r-r-ific!"

"I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."

"If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!"

"If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny."

"Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think and plan."

"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share."

"Prayer is man’s greatest power!"

"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again."

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

"Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system."

"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."

"Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be."

"So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin."

"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it."

"Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself."

"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying ."

"The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force."

"The first great advantage is that your subconscious mind begins to work under a universal law: What the mind of man can conceive and believe- the mind can achieve. Because you visualize your intended destination, your subconscious mind is affected by this self-suggestion. It goes to work to help you get there."

"That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."

"There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude."

"There is little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

"There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy."

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

"To be happy, make other people happy."