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Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.
Belief in success is the one basic, absolutely essential ingredient of successful people.
Disbelief is negative power.
It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don’t worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.
Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are.
Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.
Any training program—and that’s exactly what this book is—must do three things. It must provide content, the what-to-do. Second, it must supply a method, the how-to-do-it. And third, it must meet the acid test; that is, get results.
the thinking that guides your intelligence is much more
important than how much intelligence you may have.
The story is told that the great scientist Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein’s reply was “I don’t know. Why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”
He felt it was more important to use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse for facts.
Never underestimate your own intelligence, and never overestimate the intelligence of others. Don’t sell yourself short. Concentrate on your assets.
Remind yourself several times daily, “My attitudes are more important than my intelligence.”
See the reasons why you can do it, not the reasons why you can’t.
Use your mind to create and develop ideas, to find new and better ways to do things.
there is a cause for everything.
preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking
action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
What kind of action can I take to conquer my fear?
No one ever does anything worthwhile for which he is not criticized.
“The Drive Toward Self-Destruction,” Alice Mulcahey pointed out that upward of 30,000 Americans commit suicide each year and another 100,000 attempt to take their own lives. She went on to say, “There is shocking evidence that millions of other people are killing themselves by slower, less obvious methods. Still others are committing spiritual rather than physical suicide, constantly seeking out ways to humiliate, punish, and generally diminish themselves.”
“Underneath he’s probably a very nice guy. Most folks are.”
Fifty Years with the Golden Rule,
Dr. George W. Crane said in his famous book Applied Psychology
“I’m very glad to know you.”
When shaking hands
Use the walk-25-percent-faster technique to help build self-confidence. Throw your shoulders back, lift up your head, move ahead just a little faster, and feel self-confidence grow.
You’re bigger than you think.
Think as big as you really are! Never, never, never sell yourself short!
We do not think in words and phrases. We think only in pictures and/or images.
creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. To think big, we must use words and phrases that produce big, positive mental images.
Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn’t stuck with the present.
See what can be, not just what is.
adding value to things.
good speaker: knowledge of what he’s going to talk about and an intense desire to tell it to other people.
As the saying goes, you are a product of your environment.
What kind of standard of living do I want to provide for my family and myself? 2. What kind of house do I want to live in? 3. What kind of vacations do I want to take? 4. What financial support do I want to give my children in their early adult years? C. Social Department: 10 years from now: 1. What kinds of friends do I want to have? 2. What social groups do I want to join?
What community leadership positions would I like to hold? 4. What worthwhile causes do I want to champion?
