Top 42 Christian D. Larson Quotes
#1. Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth.
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#2. It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
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#3. Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.
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#4. The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
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#5. What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.
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#6. When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
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#7. Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
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#8. You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.
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#9. 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 ... .
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#10. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
That you have no time to criticise others,
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
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#11. The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.
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#12. 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.
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#13. To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
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#14. Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.
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#16. It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
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#17. That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.
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#18. Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
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#19. Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
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#20. True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
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#21. Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.
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#22. When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.
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#23. The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
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#24. Faith and belief have nothing in common; they are as different as darkness and light.
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#25. The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
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#27. You will look young when you feel young, but to simply feel that you are young will not always cause you to feel young. The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.
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#28. The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater.
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#29. Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.
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#30. Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
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#31. Faith is that something in man that transcends every form of limitation and opens the mind to the limitless powers of the soul
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#33. 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.
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#34. Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.
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#35. but since the system is prac- tically emptied of energy during such a state, no one can afford to permit even a slight tendency in that direction. When such tendencies are felt
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#36. What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in anyone 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.
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#37. Count nothing lost; even the day that sees "no worthy action done" may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.
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#38. Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.
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#39. The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.
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#40. We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?
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#41. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
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#42. The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.
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