Making a Habbit of Success

• Some people die at thirty and are buried at seventy.
• There is not much to do but bury a man when the last of his dreams are dead.
• A person is as young as his dreams or as old as his doubts.
• Motivate your magnificent mind to reach beyond itself and scale heights never before imagined.
• A creative thinker evolves no new ideas;  he actually evolves new combinations of ideas that are already acquired in his mind.
• Your imagination is vividly activated through creative association with other ideas.
• Think big thoughts; it’s easier to tone down an idea than to think up.
• The best way to have a good idea is to have many ideas.
• Worry is corrosive, corruptive, contagious, and destructive; fear is faith too; only believe in the positive.
• Show me what a man is thinking and I will tell you where he will be a few years from now.
• Remember the greatest success is he who performs the greatest service for the most of mankind.
• Hold a picture of a better you in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it.
• 40% of peoples worries never happen and 30% are things they can't change.
• Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due.
• You are the sum total of your dominating and most prominent thoughts.
• Fear hampers our ability to think and to reason effectively.
• Our doubts are destructive traitors; they destroy action.
• Eliminate your doubts by speaking your convictions.
• Don't spread your doubts; dominate them.
• Most people are about as happy as they make their minds to be.
• Genius is the power of making continuous effort.
• A problem well stated is half solved.
• All you have to do to fail is to do nothing.
• You can build a tower of fantastic success but you must first draw in your mind's eye the architectural sketches.
• Persistence empowers purpose.
• He who moves not forward goes backward, nothing stands still; all energy is in constant motion.
• If you are doing your best you will not have time to worry about failure.
• Success is not luck; it can be predicted and assured.
• For everyone who keeps on asking, receives, and everyone who keeps on seeking, finds, and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.
• Big people monopolize the listening; small people monopolize the talking.
• Achievement is just around the corner; don't chase rabbits when you are hunting quail.
• There's a 15-minute period in every battle when the decision will go either way.
• There comes a time in the shadow of success when you must burn your bridges behind you and commit.
• Do not remain on the plain of mediocrity; scale the mountains.
• It is beliefs, not benefits that truly motivate.
• Earn the joy of the generous action itself and forget its been done;  don't expect to be appreciated.
• He that does good for good's sake, seeks neither praise nor award, but is sure of both in the end.
• Nothing becomes dynamic until it first becomes a meaningful specific.
• Let yesterday's problems die with the dusk. If you don't, tomorrow’s achievements and opportunities will not rise with the sun.
• Five minutes of hate burns more energy than eight hours of hard work.
• What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
• Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds have purpose and rise above.
• Your happiness in life is directly proportionate to your ability to achieve.

Source: Making a Habbit of Success By: Mack R. Douglas