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.

when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading "occupied.

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.

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

People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.

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

Attitudes are more important than facts.

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

If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years that there is nothing you can do about it. But when you emphasize and reemphasize a positive attitude, you will finally convince your own consciousness that you can do something about difficulties.

Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.