We are all, no doubt, born for a wise purpose. There is as much diversity in our brains as in our countenances.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
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By believing oneself to be the master of one’s thoughts one becomes so.
Émile Coué, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
Never fear to be yourself. If Mental Science does not teach you to be yourself it teaches you nothing.
Thomas Troward, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
One step towards independent thinking always compels the next step and makes it easy. It is such a joy to find yourself thinking, as is reasonable to yourself instead of as somebody has told you.
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Glory of Christ
There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his destiny!
Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It
That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
…tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it…
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
Don’t be always saying of yourself, “I am weak or cowardly or ill-tempered or imprudent.” Draw to yourself rather the thought current of strength, courage, even temper, prudence and all other good qualities.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
If thou really lovest thyself, thou lovest all men as thyself; as long as thou lovest any one less than thyself, thou dost not really love thyself.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Every day, in every respect, I am getting better and better.
Émile Coué, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
Do you know that we are young giants who have not discovered our own strength?
William Walker Atkinson, Nuggets of the New Thought
We are what we make ourselves and not what circumstances make us.
Émile Coué, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
Promise Yourself — To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
…we must “be” before we can “do,” and we can “do” only to the extent which we “are,” and what we “are” depends upon what we “think.”
Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System