Top 70 Emmet Fox Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The art of life is to live in the present moment.”

— Emmet Fox

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2. “You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.”

— Emmet Fox

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3. “Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better – and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.”

— Emmet Fox

4. “Love is by far the most important thing of all.”

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5. “If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.”

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6. “Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.”

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7. “Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.”

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8. “Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.”

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9. “Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.”

— Emmet Fox

10. “You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.”

— Emmet Fox

11. “Life is consciousness.”

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12. “A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.”

— Emmet Fox

13. “Your Heart’s Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.”

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14. “To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.”

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15. “Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.”

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16. “Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.”

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17. “If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

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18. “Do it trembling if you must, but do it!”

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19. “There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.”

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20. “The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.”

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21. “I will not entertain or dwell on negative things.”

— Emmet Fox

22. “When things are going wrong declare constantly that you are not going to be afraid or intimidated by any outer condition.”

— Emmet Fox

23. “I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction.”

— Emmet Fox

24. “Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.”

— Emmet Fox

25. “Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.”

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26. “It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.”

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27. “When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.”

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28. “It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.”

— Emmet Fox

29. “A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.”

— Emmet Fox

30. “If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.”

— Emmet Fox

31. “Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.”

— Emmet Fox

32. “When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.”

— Emmet Fox

33. “It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.”

— Emmet Fox

34. “If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.”

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35. “The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.”

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36. “The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”

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37. “Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.”

— Emmet Fox

38. “Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.”

— Emmet Fox

39. “Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.”

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40. “The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.”

— Emmet Fox

41. “When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.”

— Emmet Fox

42. “Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.”

— Emmet Fox

43. “You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.”

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44. “We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.”

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45. “We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.”

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46. “We grow into that which we admire.”

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47. “To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself.”

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48. “Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.”

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49. “Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.”

— Emmet Fox

50. “Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today.”

— Emmet Fox