istinction of the brave soul. We think ourselves into smallness.
Were we to think upward we should reach the heights where superiority
dwells.

Perhaps there is no other one thing which keeps so many people back as
their low estimate of themselves. They are more handicapped by their
limiting thought, by their foolish convictions of inefficiency, than by
almost anything else, for _there is no power in the universe that can
help a man do a thing when he thinks he can not do it_. Self-faith must
lead the way. You can not go beyond the limits you set for yourself.

_It is one of the most difficult things to a mortal to really believe in
his own bigness_, in his own grandeur; to believe that his yearnings and
hungerings and aspirations for higher, nobler things have any basis in
reality or any real, ultimate end. But they are, in fact, the signs of
ability to match them, of power to make them real. They are the
stirrings of the divinity within us; the call to something better, to go
higher.

No man gets very far in the world or expresses great power until
self-faith is born in him; until he catches a glimpse of his higher,
nobler self; until he realizes that his ambition, his aspiration, are
proofs of his ability to reach the ideal which haunts him. The Creator
would not have mocked us with the yearning for infinite achievement
without giving us the ability and the opportunity for realizing it, any
more than he would have mocked the wild birds with an instinct to fly
south in the winter without giving them a sunny South to match the
instinct.

_The cause of whatever comes to you in life is within you_. There is
where it is created. The thing you long for and work for comes to you
because your thought has created it; because there is something inside
you that attracts it. It comes because there is an affinity within you
for it. _Your own comes to you; is always seeking you_.

Whenever you see a person who has been unusually successful in any field,
remember that he has usually thought himself into his position; his
mental attitude and energy have created it; what he stands for in his
community has come from his attitude toward life, toward his fellow men,
toward his vocation, toward himself. Above all else, it is the outcome
of his self-faith, of his inward vision of himself; the result of his
estimate of his powers and possibilities.

The men who have done the great things in the world have been profound
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