Top 40 Christian D. Larson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

— Christian D. Larson

2. “Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.”

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3. “Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.”

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4. “Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”

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5. “Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.”

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6. “Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.”

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7. “The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.”

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8. “We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?”

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9. “Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.”

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10. “Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.”

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11. “It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.”

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12. “When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.”

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15. “To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

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16. “Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.”

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17. “The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.”

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18. “The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.”

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19. “There is a faith that is faith; there is a faith that can do all things; there is a faith that moves mountains, whatever those mountains may be; there is a faith that rises above every obstacle in the world and reaches the greatest heights that the mind of man may have in view; and it is this faith that is the hidden secret.”

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20. “To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”

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21. “Make your optimism come true.”

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22. “The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.”

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23. “That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.”

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24. “It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.”

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25. “Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.”

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26. “When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.”

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27. “The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.”

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28. “Make all your friends feel there is something in them.”

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29. “The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.”

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30. “Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.”

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31. “The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.”

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32. “We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.”

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33. “Faith and belief have nothing in common; they are as different as darkness and light.”

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34. “But here we may well ask what we are living for – if we are living to give up to the influence of environment, visible or invisible, or if we are living to attain such full control over the powers and talents that are within us, that we can not only control, modify and perfect environment, but also so perfectly control ourselves that we can become all that nature intends that we should become.”

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35. “What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one 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.”

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36. “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-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.”

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37. “The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.”

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38. “True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.”

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39. “A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.”

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42. “Count nothing lost; even the day that sees “no worthy action done” may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.”

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43. “Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth.”

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44. “When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.”

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45. “Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.”

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46. “Press on eternally to the higher and larger realization of absolute goodness, and leave results to the law. More and more real goodness will naturally appear in all your thoughts and actions. You will therefore become good, not by thinking that you are good, but by thinking thoughts that are created in the image and likeness of that which is good.”

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47. “Your thought will be as brilliant as the brilliancy you think into your thought, and how much brilliancy you will think into your thought will depend upon how high your realization of brilliancy happens to be at the time. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.”

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48. “Promise yourself to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.”

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49. “Promise yourself to give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.”

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