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We will never get it right so long as we believe that all faults are in other people, or in circumstances. We must realize that quite frequently it is our own attitude to life that is wrong.

Confusion is an imposed belief. It is not YOU! The thing which is wrong is not yourself. It is belief. Do not condemn yourself. Condemn your wrong beliefs and remedy them.

The wrong doer is often a person who has left something undone, not the person who has done something.

The world usually pushes us the way we make our minds to go. If we are going up, we get a push up and if we are sliding down, we get pushed down. Hard. Gravitation makes the speed of decline faster.

However great your misfortune, however unjust the suffering you have to bear, however meanly you have been treated, however hopeless things may seem, though it may be cold comfort at the moment, believe that it might have been worse. Then be thankful that it isn't.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. One who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

We are born with faculties and powers capable of almost anything, but it is only the exercise of those powers which gives us ability and skill in anything, and leads us towards excellence.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Blessed is the person who has the gift of making friends, for it is one of GOD's best gifts.

Not only what happened to you, but what has happened to others through you--- that should also figure in your thoughts.

With a double vigilance we should watch our actions. Good and bad acts are never childless. In both cases the offspring goes beyond the parent- every good begetting a better, every bad a worse.

Nothing is easier than:

. Misunderstanding people

. Putting the worst construction on whatever anyone says.

. Attributing imaginary and wrong motives to the words and deeds of others.

. Assuming that we are always right.

. Finding faults.

. Jumping to wrong conclusions.

. Forgetting what we told everyone else to remember.

So watch out!

We can usually rely on seeing the worst of other people if we show them the worst ourselves.

If times are bad in a material sense, they are just good and full of promise in a spiritual sense as they were.

Don't wait for the perfect moment to swing into action. Otherwise, your dreams will pass you by...

It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but the frequency and the earnestness with which you mediate on these things, till the truth which maybe in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

If we want to see the world a happier place, we must each assume our share of responsibility. We must do to others as we would have them do to us. We must go out and help with a kind word, a little sympathy, and give others a pat on the back.

So many want a good world, but they want somebody else to make it good.

In the heydays of our strength and self-confidence we may imagine we can stand alone---that we do not need friends, that it does not matter if we drive people away from us. But strength and self-confidence pass and the shadow fall thickest upon a lonely road.

Be confident. Neither over-confident nor diffident. Just be sure of yourself and your abilities.

When someone close to you seeks your support, do help if you can... Don't look for excuses. Remember it takes less than a minute for anyone to give excuses. If you help in the time of need you build a lifetime of goodwill.

Takers eat well. Givers sleep well. Where do you fit in?

Always look for and maintain a relationship of give and take.

When we try to convince people that it is in their interests to do or not do a particular thing, we'd better mean it. We should not attempt to take them for a ride. Let us not assume that GOD has been kind only to us in the brains department!

If you really care for a person, let your heart give commands to your actions. Not your ego...

If we are unwell and would like to be healthy again, we have got to acknowledge pur illness and then take remedial measures. Similarly, we must admit and address our weakness to become better human beings.

There is the same difference between the foolish and the wise tongue as between the hands of a clock. One goes twelve times fast but the other signifies twelve times as much...

People take contradiction and advice much more easily that we think, only they will not bear it when violently given, even though it may be well founded. Hearts are like flowers; they remain open to the softly-falling dew, but shut up in the heavy downpour of rain.

Little failures and little successes, little faults and little virtues, a few kind words here, a helping hand... Life is made up of these small things. The truly great events are few and the trifles many, and it is out of the seemingly unimportant that we must build our existence and character.

Think of the world as a hill, and mark where millions stop. There's always a crowd at the bottom. Push on, there's plenty of room at the top.

Be willing to learn and grow. Every night before going to bed, we must contemplate whether we have become better human beings...

It is a mistake to suppose that the best work is always done by people of great strength and opportunities. It is unquestionably an advantage to have both of these things, but neither of them is a necessity to the person who has the spirit and the pluck to achieve winning results.

Two little words that make the world run more smoothly, ease the hard paces of life and absorb many of its shocks, are "THANK YOU." They are the sign of gracious spirit and a generous attitude that does not withhold praise from those that deserve it- a commodity with which too many of us are stingy.

Get rid of the wishing habit, and replace it with the habit of decision and action.

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others, governs our manners.

Accept no philosophy that will not work in a beautiful and useful life.

The easiest thing in the world---WORRY! And the most futile....

Your second-class work is no better than anyone else's second-class work. You only give what is worth giving when you give your very best.

By all means pray. But when you have prayed, go on with your work. GOD has no room for people who, after they have had an interview, sit comfortably in their arm chairs. You must go ahead with your task, and in GOD's own way and own time, your petition will be answered.