Until you can put your attention where you want it you have not become master of yourself.

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

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

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

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.

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

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

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.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then to help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

He who fears the sun will not become chief.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

A friend is as it were a second self.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.