Top 47 Quotes & Sayings by Paul J. Meyer

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I've learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.

When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

Your self-image is the result of all you have given your subconscious mind as a database, so regardless of your background, what you are willing to become is the only reality that counts.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

If you are fearful, choose courage. If you frequently procrastinate, choose to take action now. If you have always waited for others to lead, use your own initiative.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

By forgiving, we are training ourselves to be strong, confident, joyful, peaceful, happy, and loving. These positive attributes end up affecting every part of our lives.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

The act of choosing to forgive is not easy at the moment of hurt and pain, but in the long run, it is the only way to go.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Your mind believes what you tell it.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting.

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow and someday return to you in a multiplied fashion. It can be incredibly good or terribly bad, depending on your seed.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.