Great Throughts Treasury

"He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. "

"He who would be useful, strong, and happy, must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggardly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires, and to say, with authority, what thought he shall admit into the mansion of his soul. "

"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results."

"Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations. "

"Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the molding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world. "

"The good or bad is not is the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it. "

"They themselves are makers of themselves by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness. "

"Right thinking begins with the words we say to ourselves."

"To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."

"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires. Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own furtive of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit; bad thoughts, bad fruit."

"You cannot travel within and stand still without."

"Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought."