When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

What you can image, you will be, in the long run.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

The creative thought principle is very important, for as Gautama Buddha declared, "The mind is everything; what you think you become.

what you can image you can be.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.