Claude Bristol Quotes

“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.”

“There are many forces at work in the world of which we know little or nothing.”

“There is a golden thread that runs through all the teachings and makes them work for those who sincerely accept and apply them, and that thread can be named in the single word – belief.”

“There is an old saying that once we start weaving, the Gods will furnish the skein, and how true that is.”

“Think of all of this in terms of the so-called material things. You know that two objects cannot fill the same space at the same time.

Your mind can be compared to that space: you can’t keep your mind filled with negative thoughts or doubts if you have it filled with positive, powerful, and creative thoughts.”

“Thought attracts that upon which it is directed.”

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Without it there would be no great empires, no great fortunes, no great transcontinental rail lines, no modern conveniences.

In fact, there would be no advance over life in the most primitive ages.”

“To great artists there was no such thing as a small part and to small artists there were no big parts.”

“We are moulded also by the thoughts of others; by what we hear in our social life, what we read in newspapers, magazines, and books, what we hear in the movies, the theatre, and on the radio; even by chance remarks from the conversation of bystanders – and these thoughts bombard us constantly.

Some of them that accord with our own inmost thoughts and also open the way to greater visions in our life are helpful. But often there are thoughts that are upsetting, that weaken our self-confidence, and turn us away from our high purposes.

It is these outside thoughts that are the trouble makers.”

“What do you seek? Pay the price and take it away. There is no limit to the supply, but the more precious the thing you seek the higher the price. For everything we obtain we must barter the gold of our own spirits.”

“What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.”

“What you exhibit outwardly, you are inwardly. You are the product of your own thought. What you believe yourself to be, you are.”

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”