The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, e...
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour...
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may af...
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.