Then, in addition to providing the building
blocks of life, and in addition to being the root-source of
personal power we find that it is THOUGHT by which
we attain pel'sonalsuccess.
The world-famous, preacher-psychologist-
writer, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale says, «THINK success,
visualize success, and you will set in motion the power
force of the realizable wish. When the mental picture
(THOUGHT) or attitude is strongly enough held, it actu-
ally seems to control conditions and circumstances."
Dr. Walter Scott, famous psychologist and
president of Northwestern University taught, «Success or
failure in business is caused more by mental (THOUGHT)
attitudes than by mental capacities."
Disraeli, «Nurture your mind with great
THOUGHTS; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
And clergyman John William Teal, <'It is the
habitual THOUGHT which frames itself into our life.
Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping
our lives as THOUGHTS have which we harbor."
Isaac Taylor, «THINKING, not growth, makes
manhood."
Johann Pestalozzi, the Swiss educator, taught,
"Man, by THINKING only becomes truly man. Take away
THOUGHT from man's life, and what remains?"
Confucius, «Learning without THOUGHT, is
labor lost."
And Emerson, once again, «No accomplish-
ment, no assistance, no training, can compensate for lackiii