“Thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire...”

“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

“thoughts are things”

“Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought”

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”

“Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.”