Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you shouldn't do. Success is not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses all the facets of your relationships: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbor, worker and all of the others. Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts: body, mind, heart and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.
Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.
It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens. . . . Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.
When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.
As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.
The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.
Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.
Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.
Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today.
Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.
Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee. " Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name. " You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.
As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.
There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.
Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.
The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. ' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.