Florence Scovel Shinn was an influential figure in the early 20th century, recognized as a spiritual teacher and author.
Her most well-known book, “The Game of Life and How to Play It,” introduced topics on the power of positive thought and affirmations.
Her teachings focus on using thoughts and words to shape a person’s reality and life experiences. That approach combined elements of New Thought philosophy with practical advice, making her ideas popular. Common themes include:
- Visualization
- Affirmations
- Overcoming challenges
- Faith
- Intuition
- Positive thinking
Her influence isn’t confined to the early New Thought movement; it extends into modern self-help and motivational literature, and many authors draw inspiration from her work.
Published Works
Shinn began writing in the early 1920s and her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It, was published in 1925. In this book, she describes life as a game, emphasizing a positive mindset, the power of thought, affirmations, and the importance of visualization.
This was followed by “Your Word is Your Wand” in 1928, which continued the same themes but focused much more on providing real affirmations.
It would be 12 years before “The Secret Door to Success,” a book based on her talks and lectures, was published in 1940. “The Power of the Spoken Word” and “The Magic Path of Intuition” were then posthumously published in 1945 and 2013 respectively. The latter, in my view, is the most complete and readable of her books for modern audiences.
Published during her life:
- The Game of Life and How to Play it (1925)
- Your Word is Your Wand (1928)
- The Secret Door to Success (1940)
Published after her death:
- The Power of the Spoken Word (1945)
- Collected works: F.S. Shinn, The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn: Four complete books (1989)
- The Magic Path of Intuition (2013)
The Quotes
This collection of Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes has been hand-picked from her five published works and are split into 20 categories.
Some quotes could belong to multiple groups, but we’ve chosen the best fit rather than repeat any.
The following quote classifications are followed by the book it appears in:
- Abundance and Prosperity
- Faith and Belief
- Fear and Courage
- Gratitude
- Imagination and Visualization
- Intuition
- Law of Karma
- Living in the Present
- Love and Relationships
- Manifestation and the Laws of Attraction and Vibration
- Mind and Consciousness
- Negative Thinking
- Non-resistance
- Peace, Harmony, and Happiness
- Power of Thought
- Power of Words
- Purpose and Destiny
- Self-Belief and Personal Growth
- Spiritual Awareness, Guidance, and Development
- Success and Achievement
Abundance and Prosperity
- “I serve only faith and my unlimited abundance is made manifest.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “In the Divine Design, there is no limitation, only health, wealth, love, and perfect self-expression.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “In the superconscious, there is a lavish supply for every demand, and your good is perfect and permanent.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and things are investments, and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “No man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in poverty by saying: ‘Money means nothing to me, and I have contempt for people who have it’.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Nothing comes into your life uninvited. You are always inviting poverty or prosperity through your quality of thought.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love, and perfect self-expression. This is the square of life, which brings perfect happiness.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “This is the law of nature: Use or lose. Hoarding and saving always lead to loss. Use what you have, and more will be added unto you.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “You cannot enter the Kingdom of Abundance bemoaning your lot.”
— The Secret Door to Success
Faith and Belief
- “All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “All unhappiness comes from not being able to see clearly your good. So, if assailed by doubts and fears, do something immediately to show your faith.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Faith is simply knowing that God can do it. Every unpleasant condition in your life is the result of a lack of faith.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Have faith in the affirmations you use. Never use a statement that does not give you a feeling of security.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Hope looks forward, Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “In the arena of Life we must keep ourselves tuned-up to concert pitch. Are we acting from motives of fear or faith? Watch your motives with all diligence, for out of them are the issues of life.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Nothing is too good to be true, nothing is too wonderful to happen, nothing is too good to last, when you look to God for your good.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “There is only one way of getting rid of fear–and that is, to transmute it into faith; for fear is the opposite of faith.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It
Fear and Courage
- “Action impresses the subconscious, and if you run away from a situation, it will run after you. The only way you can neutralize fear is to walk up to the thing you are afraid of.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Fear is man’s only adversary. You face defeat whenever you are fearful! Fear of lack! Fear of failure! Fear of loss! Fear of personality! Fear of criticism! Fear robs you of all power, for you have lost your contact with the Universal Power House.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “I am asked, so often by my students, ‘How can I get rid of fear?’ I reply, ‘By walking up to the thing you are afraid of.’ ‘The lion takes its fierceness from your fear.’ Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after you.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “If you prepare for what you fear or don’t want, you begin to attract it.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “In every act prompted by fear lies the germ of its own defeat.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear. When man can ‘wish without worrying,’ every desire will be instantly fulfilled.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Overcoming means to conquer all doubts, fears and negative vibrations. One man with perfect peace and perfect poise, filled with love and good-will, could dissolve all negative vibrations.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “The big things in life will come easily if you have no doubts and fears.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “There is, indeed, a wilderness to pass through before your Promised Land is reached. The old doubts and fears encamp round about you, but, there is always someone to tell you to go forward! There is always a Moses on your pathway. Sometimes it is a friend, sometimes intuition!.”
— The Secret Door to Success
Gratitude
- “Be grateful for what you have, and you will attract more to be grateful for.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Continually give thanks for what you have, and for manifestation of invisible supply.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Do not look back and hash over hard times. Or you will be drawn back into these conditions. Give thanks for the dawn of a new day. You must be immune to all discouragement and adverse appearances.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition
Imagination and Visualization
- “A person with a success consciousness is someone who doesn’t know he is a failure, even when he fails. His vision of success is strong–he is unmoved by adverse conditions.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Man must ever hold the vision of his journey’s end and demand the manifestation of that which he has already received.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “One should not visualize or force a mental picture. When he demands the Devine Design to come into his conscious mind, he will receive flashes of inspiration, and begin to see himself making some great accomplishment. This is the picture, or idea, he must hold without wavering.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “The imagination has been called, ‘The Scissors of The Mind,’ and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks said: Know Thyself.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Think of the irresistible power of thought with clear vision. Many people are in a fog most of the time, making wrong decisions and going the wrong way.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “You have built up a fixed idea that ‘Life is hard and filled with disappointments.’ You will meet these thoughts as concrete experiences in life, for ‘Out of the imaginations of the heart come the issues of life.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “You may work very hard on the external and accomplish nothing, if you are without vision. Vision means to see clearly where you are going. To keep your eye on the goal. All men who have accomplished big things have done this.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word
Intuition
- “All suffering comes from the violation of intuition. Unless intuition builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Get the habit of hunching, then you will always be on the magic path.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Intuition is a spiritual faculty high above the reasoning mind, but on that path is all that you desire or require.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Intuition is the magic path, the beeline to your demonstration. Intuition is a Spiritual faculty above the intellect. It is the ‘still small voice’ commonly called a hunch, which says, ‘This is the way, walk ye in it.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man’s unerring guide.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “It is very difficult for a person who has always followed the reasoning mind, to suddenly follow intuition.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Let intuition be your compass and it will always get you out of the woods.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Misfortune is due to failure to stick to the things which spirit has revealed through intuition. All big things have been accomplished by men who stuck to their big ideas.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Prayer is telephoning to God, and intuition is God telephoning to you.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The intuitive person is never undecided: he is given his leads and hunches, and goes boldly ahead, knowing he is on the magic path.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Through following intuition, you often go for one thing and get another. From the superconscious–the realm of intuition–what you should know will be revealed to you.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition
Law of Karma
- “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “The Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man’s thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Your judgement day comes, they say, in sevens – seven hours, seven days, seven weeks, seven months, or seven years. It might even come in seven minutes. Then you pay some Karmic debt; the price for having violated spiritual law.”
— The Secret Door to Success
Living in the Present
- “People who live in the past have severed their contact with the wonderful now.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Some people always live in the future. It is daydreaming, and they never catch up in the now.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now..”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “When you realize that time and space are but a dream, you live suspended in the moment, and time can never touch you.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition
Love and Relationships
- “‘Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition.’ His arrows will be transmuted into blessings.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you..”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Follow the path of love, and all things are added, for God is love, and God is supply; follow the path of selfishness and greed, and the supply vanishes, or man is separated from it.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Forgive the person or persons who have harmed you, sending love and goodwill, saying, ‘I forgive them.’ Then like a kaleidoscope, the whole situation changes, for love is fulfilling of the law. Your seeming enemies are transmuted into friends and, consciously or unconsciously, serve the Divine Plan of your life.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Often people go through life resenting and disliking some particular person, thereby keeping the unhappy situation alive and harmful to mind, body, and affairs.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Send goodwill to your seeming enemy, and you surround yourself with a great aura of protection.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The enlightened man, therefore, endeavours to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “There is for each person his ‘other half’ or divine selection. These two are one in their thought worlds. These are the two ‘whom God has joined together and no man shall (or can) part asunder.’ ‘The twain shall be made one,’ for in the superconscious mind of each is in the same Divine Plan.”
— Your Word is Your Wand
Manifestation and the Laws of Attraction and Vibration
- “A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “All life is vibration. Feel rich, and you attract riches. Feel successful and you become successful.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “All that you desire or require is already on your pathway, but you must be wide awake to your good to bring it into manifestation.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “All the good that is to be made manifest in man’s life is already an accomplished fact in divine mind, and is released through man’s recognition, or spoken word, so he must be careful to decree that only the Divine Idea be made manifest, for often, he decrees, through his ‘idle words,’ failure or misfortune.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Every test is a process of purification. When we are unmoved by them, we won’t attract them.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Giving opens the way for receiving.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Man’s freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny, bringing into manifestation the Devine Design of his life.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Many people do not receive their heart’s desire because they desire it too intensely. They are longing for it instead of feeling they have already received it.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Many people lead lives of limitation, hoarding and saving, afraid to use what they have; which brings more lack and more limitation.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “People who are manifesting the appearance of lack are in a state of fear and confusion. They are not wide-awake to their good and miss leads and opportunities. A peaceful person is a wide-awake person. He sees clearly and acts quickly. He never misses a trick.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Time and space are but a dream. Man must bring his future into the now. Blessings that seem so far away in the future are already prepared for you, waiting for you to believe in manifestation.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his burden) he will have instantaneous manifestation.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “When ye pray believe ye have it. When ye pray ACT as if you have already received.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “When you have completely put to flight your worries, there will be nothing to interfere with the immediate manifestation of every good and perfect gift, for your heart’s desire is no longer a heart’s disease..”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “You must act as if you had already received.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “You must have a great desire for financial freedom, you must feel yourself rich, you must see yourself rich, you must continually prepare for riches. Become as a little child and make believe you are rich. You are then impressing the subconscious with expectancy.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Your big opportunity and big success usually slide in, when you least expect it. You have to let go long enough for the great law of attraction to operate. You never saw a worried and anxious magnet. It stands up straight and hasn’t a care in the world, because it knows the needles can’t help jumping to it. The things we rightly desire come to pass when we have taken the clutch off.”
— The Secret Door to Success
Mind and Consciousness
- “As man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes a target for destructive forces. The psychic plane is the result of man’s mortal thought, and is on the ‘plane of opposites.’ He may receive either good or bad messages.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “If a man is in debt or people owe him money, it shows that a belief of debt is in his subconscious mind.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “If he desires riches, he must first be rich first in consciousness.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “It seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the subconscious from the conscious, or reasoning mind, as the reasoning mind (the intellect) is limited in its conceptions and filled with doubts and fears.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Man’s only enemies are within himself.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Many people are without vital interests and are hungry to hear what other people are doing. They are usually the ones who keep the radio turned on from early morning till late at night. They must be entertained every minute. Their own affairs do not hold enough interest.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “No one keeps you out of your good but yourself.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The superconscious mind (or Christ within) is the department which fights man’s battle and relieves him of burdens.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Watch your own motives with all diligence, for out of them are the issues of life.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “You can control any situation if you first control yourself.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It
Negative Thinking
- “A negative idea, continually dwelled upon, will create a thought-form in the subconscious. These thought-forms will meet you on your pathway of life until you neutralize them.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Every man has power to lift the fog in his life. It may be a fog of lack of money, love, happiness, or health.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “Fear, doubt, anxiety, anger, resentment pull down the cells of the body, shock the nervous system and are the causes of disease and disaster.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “Many people think if they can control their temper or not show anger, it is enough. This is not the case. The vibration goes out just the same. As long as you can be moved inwardly, there will be discord in your life. You must be cleansed to be free from anger and the effects of anger.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Of course the Bible is speaking of states of consciousness. You are in a wilderness or desert, when you are out of harmony – when you are angry, resentful, fearful or undecided. Indecision is the cause of much ill health, being unable to make up your mind.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Resentment holds back your good. The more you resent, the more you will have to resent; you grow a resentment track in your brain, and your expression will be one of habitual resentment. You will be avoided and miss the golden opportunities which await you each day.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers. They refuse gifts through pride, or some negative reason, thereby blocking their channels, and invariably find themselves eventually with little or nothing.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison the atmosphere of the individual.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “The average person is a resenter, a resister, or a regretter. They resent people they know and people they don’t know. They resist everything from daylight saving up. They regret what they did or what they didn’t do. It is very wearing to be with these people. They exhaust all their friends. It is because are not living in the wonderful now and are losing all the tricks in the game of life.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “The average person will dwell on all the obstacles and hindrances which are there to prevent his good coming to pass. You ‘combine with what you notice,’ so if you give obstacles and hindrances your undivided attention, they grow worse and worse.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Who is the enemy ‘before thee?’ The negative thought-forms which you have built up in your subconscious mind.”
— The Secret Door to Success
Non-resistance
- “Non-resistance is an art. When acquired, The World is Yours! So many people are trying to force situations. Your lasting good will never come through forcing personal will.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he runs from it, it will run after him.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “To receive the desire of the heart, all karma must be wiped out, as well as anxiety, impatience, and fear. We are told to wait patiently on the law. Patience means nonresistance. Practice nonresistance on the law, and it will bring your desire to pass.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It
Peace, Harmony, and Happiness
- “Health and happiness go hand in hand. Ill health is caused by inharmony.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Joy brings new strength, vigor, and vitality. Worry and fear tear down the cells of the body.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will to man!.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “When man is harmonious and happy, he is healthy!.”
— Your Word is Your Wand
Power of Thought
- “A thought-form of self-pity is one of the most dangerous you can have. The more you pity yourself, the worse things get..”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “All power is given man (through right thinking) to bring his heaven upon his earth, and this is the goal of the ‘Game of Life.’.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Change your expectancies and you change your conditions. How can you change your expectancies, when you have formed the habit of expecting loss, lack or failure? Begin to act as if you expected success, happiness and abundance; prepare for your good..”
— The Secret Door to Success - “If man loses anything, it shows there is a belief of loss in his subconscious mind.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “Many people put up with limited conditions because they are too lazy (mentally), to think themselves out of them.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Most people consider life a battle but it is not a battle, it is a game.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts. ‘Words are bodies or forces which move spirally and return in due season to cross the lives of their creators.’ People who are always talking lack and limitation, reap lack and limitation.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “The man who is centered and established in right thinking, the man who sends out only good-will to his fellowman, and who is without fear, cannot be touched or influenced by the negative thoughts of others.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “To change your world, you must change your vibrations. Turn on a different current in your battery of thought, and you’ll see the difference immediately..”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “We have the power to choose our thoughts.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Your success and happiness in life depend upon the watchman at the gate of your thoughts, for your thoughts, sooner or later, crystallize on the external.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Your world is crystallized thought. Most people have crystallized wrong conditions, for they have served fear instead of faith. It takes a great stretch of the imagination to believe that life can be made perfect, free from all unhappy experiences..”
— The Magic Path of Intuition
Power of Words
- “A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do ‘not return void.’ Through his spoken word man is continually making laws for himself.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Continually affirming establishes the belief in the subconscious.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “How can a person attain peace when his whole life is in a turmoil? By taking an affirmation. You cannot control your thought but you can control your words, and eventually the word wins out.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Man’s word is his wand filled with magic and power!.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “Never voice lack or limitation for ‘by your words you are condemned.’ You combine with what you notice, and if you are always noticing failure and hard times, you will combine with failure and hard times.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “One should never use an affirmation unless it is absolutely satisfying and convincing to his own consciousness, and often an affirmation is changed to suit different people.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Owing to the vibratory power of words, what you voice, you begin to attract.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “That is the value of the affirmation. You are deliberately building up a constructive idea in your consciousness. Your consciousness may be crammed and jammed with destructive ideas, but continually making a statement of Truth, will dissolve these negative thought forms.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to ‘heal, bless or prosper.’ What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another he is wishing for himself.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who knows the power of his word, and who follows his intuitive leads.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “We take an affirmation and repeat it continually, while our thoughts are on the rampage. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “You are now a master workman and your tools are your words. Be sure you are building constructively, according to the Divine Plan.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word
Purpose and Destiny
- “Be sure that the Divine plan of your life will give you perfect satisfaction. You will no longer envy anyone.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Hunches are my hounds of Heaven–they lead me in the perfect way.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “If one door closes, immediately, another door opens.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The most important thing in life, is to bring the divine plan to pass. Just as the picture of the oak is in the acorn, the divine design of your life is in your superconscious mind, and you must work out the perfect pattern in your affairs.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his destiny.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Unless man has some objective, some Promised Land to look forward to, he begins to perish.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “You may desire something that is not in the Divine Plan, and you find you are continually blocked in its manifestation; or if you attain it, it brings only unhappiness and misfortune.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition
Self-Belief and Personal Growth
- “Be wide-awake to your good, and let every event of the day teach you something.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “I have weapons ye know not of! I have ways ye know not of! I have channels ye know not of! Mysterious weapons, mysterious ways, mysterious channels!.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “If you believe in yourself, others will believe in you.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “Many people are afraid of new undertakings. They are panic-stricken by the idea of doing something different, even though old conditions are unbearable. Sail joyously in unknown seas; arrive in your promised land.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “No man gives to himself but himself, and no man takes away from himself but himself. The ‘Game of Life’ is a game of solitaire; as you change, all conditions will change.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “People think by running away from a negative situation, they will be rid of it, but the same situation confronts them wherever they go. They will meet the same experiences until they have learned their lessons.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Suffering is not necessary for a man’s development; it is the result of violation of spiritual law, but few people seem able to rouse themselves from their ‘soul sleep’ without it.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Taking a trip often breaks up old thought-forms, for it brings a change of scene and environment–new thoughts. People travel many miles to take a ‘cure’ of some kind and return as a ‘different person.’”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change!.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “There is an old saying: ‘No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.’”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It
Spiritual Awareness, Guidance, and Development
- “All suffering is a spiritual alarm clock. You have been asleep about something. Perhaps you have been unjust, unforgiving, ungrateful, critical, or intolerant. Perhaps you were afraid to follow an intuitive lead.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Desire is a tremendous power and must be rightly directed. You may desire the wrong things and conditions, so to give the Supreme Intelligence right of you, you must say, I desire only that which God desires through me. The wrong desire will fade out and be replaced by the right aspirations.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Man can only lose what doesn’t belong to him by Divine Right, or isn’t good enough for him.”
— Your Word is Your Wand - “Spiritual development means the ability to stand still, or stand aside, and let Infinite Intelligence lift your burdens and fight your battles.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “When man knows that there is an invincible power that protects him and all that he loves, and brings to him every righteous desire of the heart, he relaxes all nervous tension and is happy and satisfied.”
— Your Word is Your Wand
Success and Achievement
- “A successful man is always asked – ‘What is the secret of your success?’ People never ask a man who is a failure, ‘What is the secret of your failure?’ It is quite easy to see and they are not interested. People all want to know how to open the secret door of success. For each man there is success, but it seems to be behind a door or wall.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “All inventors catch up with the ideas of the articles they invent. I say in my book, ‘The Game of Life and How To Play It,’ the telephone was seeking Bell.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Continually ‘making-believe,’ impresses the subconscious. If one makes believe he is rich, and makes believe he is successful, in ‘due time he will reap.’.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “I am often asked why it is easier to see failure than success, unhappiness than happiness. It is of our early training, which was usually negative. When good things happened, people exclaimed, ‘This is too good to be true.’ Millions of people have neutralized their good by this attitude.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “Many people are up against the wall of discouragement. Courage and endurance are part of the system. We read this in lives of all successful men and women.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “Taking an interest in your work, enjoying what you are doing opens the secret door to success.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself, and know that the ground you are on is holy ground and that you expand into the Divine Plan of your life.”
— The Magic Path of Intuition - “The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself. So many people are bored by themselves. They have no self-reliance, and are always wishing they were someone else.”
— The Power of the Spoken Word - “The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!.”
— The Game of Life and How to Play It - “You combine with what you vibrate to, so let us all now vibrate to success, happiness and abundance.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “You must form the habit of living in the fourth dimension, ‘The World of the Wondrous.’ It is the world where you do not judge by appearances. You have trained your inner eye to see through failure into success, to see through sickness into health to see through limitation into plenty.”
— The Secret Door to Success - “You seek the Lord by making your affirmation, expecting and preparing for your good. If you ask for success and prepare for failure, you will receive the thing you have prepared for.”
— The Secret Door to Success