Christian D. Larson
A man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.— Christian D. Larson
Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer.— Christian D. Larson
He who can change his mind every day and think the new about everything every day, will always be well; he will always have happiness; he will always be free; his life will always be interesting; he will constantly move forward into the larger, the richer and the better; and whatever is needed for his welfare today, of that he shall surely have abundance.— Christian D. Larson
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.— Christian D. Larson
Depend only upon yourself but work in harmony with all things.— Christian D. Larson
The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater.— Christian D. Larson
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.— Christian D. Larson
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 grade men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.— Christian D. Larson
The man or woman who never weakens when things are against them, will grow stronger and stronger until they will have the power to cause all things to be for them.— Christian D. Larson
It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.— Christian D. Larson
Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.— Christian D. Larson
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.— Christian D. Larson
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.— Christian D. Larson
In the building of character, the two principal objects in view should be the strong and the beautiful. The character that is strong but not beautiful may have force, but cannot use that force in the building of the superior. The character that is beautiful but not strong will not have sufficient power to carry out its lofty ideals. It is the strong and the beautiful combined that builds mind and character, and that brings into being the superior man.— Christian D. Larson
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.— Christian D. Larson
Links
Your Forces and How to Use Them — A book by Christian D. Larson (pdf version)
The Ideal Made Real — Another book by Christian D. Larson
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