» Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.
» Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
» You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
» We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
» You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
» Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
» It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
» People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' -- to work for and hope for.
» Close scrutiny will show that most ''crisis situations'' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
» To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.