Quotes from Christian D. Larson

Make your optimism come true.

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.

Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

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.

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.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

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.

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.

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

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.

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.

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.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.

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.

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

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.

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.

If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worthwhile, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

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.

The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater.

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.