Christian D. Larson
American author and teacher, 1874-1954
28 quotes.
Quotes by Christian D. Larson
- Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.
- Create your own thought and you become what you want to become because your thought creates you.
- Do your best under every circumstance, and believe that every circumstance will give its best to you.
- If you want to realize the ideal, make yourself more ideal.
- In its last analysis, the cause of all failure can be traced to the scattering of forces, and the cause of all achievement to the concentration of forces.
- It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
- Make every action firm, strong, positive and determined; in other words, put your whole soul into everything that you feel, think or do.
- Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now.
- Persist in feeling cheerful, hopeful, optimistic and strong.
- Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
- Say to yourself a hundred times every day and mean it with all your heart: I will become more than I am.
- The man who wins is the man who can apply in practical life every part of his mental ability, and who can make every action of his mind tell.
- The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
- 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 power of desire when combined with faith becomes invincible.
- The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen.
- The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life...
- 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.
- Thousands of people start out right, but they have not the power of will to continue, so that where ten thousand make a good beginning, less than a score finish the race.
- Thus we understand how he who thinks he can develops the power that can.
- To be overcome by adversity and threatening failure is to lose strength; to always remain in the same lofty, determined mood is to constantly grow in strength.
- To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
- To desire one thing today and another tomorrow means failure.
- To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
- To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
- What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.
- When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the power and ability that is in us, we may rest assured that we will get it.
- Whenever you will to do anything, will it with all there is in you.