Christian D. Larson Quotes
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.
The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.
When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.
That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.
Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.
A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.
When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.