Where your attention is, there is your destiny.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.