April 14

Many people suffering from unresolved fear find release and relief through the practice of courage and confidence. These two positive mental attitudes—courage and confidence—banish fear; they make wonderful things happen. Yet all three—confidence, courage, fear—result from the kind of thoughts we think.

The mental climate a person creates determines whether he will have confidence even when things seem hopeless and have courage even when apprehensive factors appear. Think courage, act with courage. Image yourself as confident. Act with confidence. As you think, act, and image, so shall you become.

April 13

When you have failed, your first step is to forget. The second is never to settle for it; never accept a failure. Then go right back at it again. Extract what know-how you can. Never say: “Well, I failed. That means I can’t do it, I’ll not try it anymore.” That will develop the failure psychology in you so that you will become a failure person. Ask God’s guidance about how to do the thing better the next time and keep right at it until you become a success person.

April 12

Never run yourself down. Believe in yourself, esteem yourself not with egotism but with humble, realistic self-confidence. Stop brooding over the past. Drop the post-mortems! Live enthusiastically. Starting today, make the best you can of it. Give it all you’ve got and you will find that to be plenty.

April 11

In my youth, l heard a great speaker say. “You can become strongest in your weakest place.” As in welding, the broken point becomes strongest when heat is applied. So thought and intensity of faith can weld the weak spots in personality into great strength. It’s amazing what a person can creatively do with his own self.

April 10

The more I see of people the more I’m impressed by their astounding ability to meet tough situations. And their ability to rebound is fantastic. There is a built-in comeback power in you that should never be underestimated.

April 9

You never need to settle for what you are. You can be a new person. I've seen people change—defeated people become victorious, dull people become excited, real people experience marvelous change. We were not merely created: we can be re-created.

April 8

One of the problems of our day is how to counteract the effects on the younger generation of a civilization dedicated to the pursuit of luxury and the avoidance of effort. A hundred years ago, there was kindling to be chopped, water to be carried, animals to be fed. But not anymore. We are in danger of robbing our children of one of their greatest heritages: that of struggle.