Great Throughts Treasury

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."

"Supply always comes on the heels of demand."

"The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want."

"The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed."

"The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor..."

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

"Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."

"Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin."

"You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door."

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to be."

"You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires."

"Your real self - the "I am I" - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm."

"You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come."

"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

"You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get."