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Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.
Sep 10, 2025
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.
Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.
Times will change for the better when you change.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.