Christian D. Larson Quotes

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• True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
• To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that…
• Make all your friends feel there is something in them.
• 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…
• When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not…
• When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone.…
• 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,…
• In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live…
• 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…
• When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant…
• 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…
• The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
• The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical…
• The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
• You may think that you are well, but you will not secure health until you think thoughts that produce health. You may persistently affirm that…
• That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.
• Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.
• It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
• 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…
• So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition…

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