The Magic of Believing Quotes

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all acheivement.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“creative forces comes only when there is a completely rounded-out thought, when there is a fully developed mental picture, or when the imagination can visualize the fulfillment of our ambition and see in our mind a picture of the object we desire...”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“However, I would like to point out that hard work alone will not bring success. The world is filled with people who have worked hard but have little to show for it. Something more than hard work is necessary: It is creative thinking and firm belief in your ability to execute your ideas. The successful people in history have succeeded through their thinking. Their hands were merely helpers to their brains.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“your constant affirmations until belief in your goal becomes a vital part of you and you feel it in your blood, your bones, and in every tissue of your body.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“What you exhibit outwardly, you are inwardly. You are the product of your own thought. What you believe yourself to be, you are.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Thought attracts that upon which it is directed.”
― Claude Bristol, Magic of Believing

“Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As King Solomon put it, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Recall”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Even though the decision you make may not be the best one, the mere deciding gives you strength and raises your morale. It’s the fear of doing the wrong thing that attracts the wrong thing. Decide and act, and the chances are that your troubles will fade into thin air --whether you make a mistake or not. All great men are men of quick decision which flows from their intuition, their accumulated knowledge, and previous experience. So learn to be quick in making decisions and audacious in your actions.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“You must have a mental pattern clearly drawn in your mind. Ask yourself, Where am I headed? What is my goal? Have I visualized just what I really want? If success is to be measured in terms of wealth, can you fix the amount in figures? If in terms of achievement, can you specify it definitely?”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. Without it there would be no great empires, no great fortunes, no great transcontinental rail lines, no modern conveniences; in fact, there would be no advance over life in the most primitive ages.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that the ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that, we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“We are moulded also by the thoughts of others; by what we hear in our social life, what we read in newspapers, magazines, and books, what we hear in the movies, the theatre, and on the radio; even by chance remarks from the conversation of bystanders --and these thoughts bombard us constantly. Some of them that accord with our own inmost thoughts and also open the way to greater visions in our life are helpful. But often there are thoughts that are upsetting, that weaken our self-confidence, and turn us away from our high purposes. It is these outside thoughts that are the trouble makers, and later I shall point out how you can keep free of them.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Your mind can be compared to that space: you can’t keep your mind filled with negative thoughts or doubts if you have it filled with positive, powerful, and creative thoughts.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“The truth is that when you talk about what you’re going to do, you scatter your forces. You lose the close connection with the subconscious, and you frequently find that unless you do as here directed, you will have to start all over again in your program of achievement.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Your very life is your thinking and the result of your thinking processes. Your flesh, bones, and muscles can be reduced to 70 per cent water and a few chemicals of small value, but it is your mind and what you think that makes you what you are. The secret of success lies not without, but within, the thoughts of man.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“SUCCESS IS A matter of never-ceasing application. You must forever work at it diligently. Otherwise it takes wings and flies away.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Many people become confused and frustrated because they allow themselves to be influenced by negative thoughts of others—this is a weakness of many salesmen—when they absorb too much of what the prospect says about his reasons for not doing something such as buying.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“you must at all times keep your mind filled with positive thoughts so that their strong vibrations will ward off all negative and destructive thoughts that might come from the outside.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“You are constantly being swayed by what you read, see, and hear, and as a result the co-ordinating part of this creative force turns to gathering together all these scattered elements in a confused mass, instead of devoting itself to making a clear and dynamic picture of your desire.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Shakespeare said: “Assume a virtue if you have it not.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“What do you seek? Pay the price and take it away. There is no limit to the supply, but the more precious the thing you seek the higher the price. For everything we obtain we must barter the gold of our own spirits… Where to find the gold of the All Powerful? One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. When he finds himself, he finds freedom and all riches, achievement, and prosperity.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Oh that! Well, when you’re about to drop off to sleep, just tell yourself that tomorrow’s the day you’ve got to surpass anything you did today. That, whatever demands are made upon you, all your abilities, all you’ve learned, perhaps things you’ve forgotten you ever knew – all these will be available to you .”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Don’t grumble but think what a privilege it is to live in such a wonderful world and instead of complaining, brace right up and keep smiling and enjoy the blessings at hand.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“During the night one of the men complained of lack of air, and upon arising he groped through the dark to what he thought was the window. He couldn’t open it, and, after finding a shoe, knocked out the pane of glass. Then they slept comfortably the rest of the night, only to discover at dawn that the window was intact. What had been smashed was the glass door to a closet!”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“If it works at all, it works everywhere.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“There is an old saying that once we start weaving, the Gods will furnish the skein, and how true that is.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“You know nothing is ever lost—it’s just misplaced. It’s right there to be found in the exact place where you left it or dropped it.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Think of all of this in terms of the so-called material things. You know that two objects cannot fill the same space at the same time. Your mind can be compared to that space: you can’t keep your mind filled with negative thoughts or doubts if you have it filled with positive, powerful, and creative thoughts.”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing

“Empress of Japan, noted”
― Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing