Claude Bristol Quotes

“All of you have heard of Dr. Emil Coue, the Frenchman who was in this country a few years ago, telling people they could cure themselves if they would adopt his plan.

His idea was that you should say to yourself 'Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.' Just ponder over that for a minute.”

“Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way – how many pleasing things are done for you.”

“Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.”

“Doing things for others always pays dividends.”

“It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.”

“One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.”

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

“To win you've got to stay in the game.”

“Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.”

“We usually get what we anticipate.”

“You have to think big to be big.”

“You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.”

“All great men are men of quick decision which flows from their intuition, their accumulated knowledge, and previous experience. So learn to be quick in making decisions and audacious in your actions.”

“An old Latin proverb says, 'Believe that you have it, and you have it.'

Belief is the motivating force that enables you to achieve your goal.”

“Creative forces come only when there is a completely rounded-out thought, when there is a fully developed mental picture, or when the imagination can visualize the fulfillment of our ambition and see in our mind a picture of the object we desire.”

“Don’t grumble but think what a privilege it is to live in such a wonderful world and instead of complaining, brace right up and keep smiling and enjoy the blessings at hand.”

“During the night one of the men complained of lack of air, and upon arising he groped through the dark to what he thought was the window. He couldn’t open it, and, after finding a shoe, knocked out the pane of glass.

Then they slept comfortably the rest of the night, only to discover at dawn that the window was intact. What had been smashed was the glass door to a closet!”

“Even though the decision you make may not be the best one, the mere deciding gives you strength and raises your morale. It’s the fear of doing the wrong thing that attracts the wrong thing.

Decide and act, and the chances are that your troubles will fade into thin air – whether you make a mistake or not.”

“Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.”

“Experience will soon teach you that once a decision is made, the problems and troubles begin to disappear.”

“First things come first, always, and if a man feels and believes he is entitled to a better job and has prepared himself for it, then with the use of this science he can get that job or some other as good or better.”

“I know what it means to lose loved ones, but I have also learned that it is necessary to close the door on yesterday and keep it closed. We live today, not yesterday.”

“I would like to point out that hard work alone will not bring success. The world is filled with people who have worked hard but have little to show for it.

Something more than hard work is necessary: It is creative thinking and firm belief in your ability to execute your ideas.

The successful people in history have succeeded through their thinking. Their hands were merely helpers to their brains.”

“If it works at all, it works everywhere.”

“If you do not follow your own thoughts, then you will follow the thoughts of the fellow who followed his,”

“Many engage in wishful thinking, but wishful thinking in itself is without effect simply because the power factor is missing.”

“Many people become confused and frustrated because they allow themselves to be influenced by negative thoughts of others — this is a weakness of many salesmen — when they absorb too much of what the prospect says about his reasons for not doing something such as buying.”

“Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that the ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that, we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.”

“Success is a matter of never-ceasing application. You must forever work at it diligently. Otherwise it takes wings and flies away.”

“The truth is that when you talk about what you’re going to do, you scatter your forces. You lose the close connection with the subconscious, and you frequently find that unless you do as here directed, you will have to start all over again in your program of achievement.”