Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Action expresses priorities.