The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Truth is what works.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Time itself comes in drops.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.