Top 80 Emmet Fox Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.”

— Emmet Fox

52. “Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.”

— Emmet Fox

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

— Emmet Fox

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

— Emmet Fox

55. “Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.”

— Emmet Fox

56. “We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.”

— Emmet Fox

57. “If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need – and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.”

— Emmet Fox

58. “Realizing God as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.”

— Emmet Fox

59. “Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart’s desire.”

— Emmet Fox

60. “The universe is run exactly on the lines of a cafeteria. Unless you claim – mentally – what you want, you may sit and wait forever.”

— Emmet Fox

61. “You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.”

— Emmet Fox

62. “As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.”

— Emmet Fox

63. “Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard time getting started, be grateful that you are such a successful clutterer. Who else could have amassed such a collection of stuff?”

— Emmet Fox

64. “We know the Truth; we do not judge by appearances. We know that we live in a mental world, and to know that is the key to life. If a child could be taught only one thing, it should be taught that this is a mental world. I would let all the other things go and teach him that.”

— Emmet Fox

65. “You are always in your right place at the moment. If you don’t like it, change it scientifically by rising in consciousness. This will be permanent.”

— Emmet Fox

66. “To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.”

— Emmet Fox

67. “Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.”

— Emmet Fox

68. “You are not happy because you’re healthy, you are healthy because you’re happy.”

— Emmet Fox

69. “You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.”

— Emmet Fox

70. “Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill.”

— Emmet Fox

71. “Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom and prosperity, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, a superior kind of animal, you will remain in bondage – in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.”

— Emmet Fox

72. “It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.”

— Emmet Fox

73. “If you are looking to outer, passing, mutable things for either happiness or security, you are not putting God first.”

— Emmet Fox

74. “There is nothing in the universe that you cannot do or be if you are mentally ready.”

— Emmet Fox

75. “Pray definitely for yourself every day or you will get nowhere.”

— Emmet Fox

76. “An early New Thought writer said: “Knead love into the bread you bake; wrap strength and courage in the parcel you tie for the woman with the weary face; hand trust and candor with the coin you pay to the man with the suspicious eyes.” This is beautifully said, and it sums up the Practice of the Presence of God.”

— Emmet Fox

77. “You cannot expect to reach port if you are faithful in your prayers and meditations for a time, and then for a time you forget God.”

— Emmet Fox

78. “Either Jesus is a reliable guide, or he is not.”

— Emmet Fox

79. “Forgiveness is the strongest medicine.”

— Emmet Fox

80. “No man can save his brother’s soul, or pay his brother’s debt.” We can and should help one another on special occasions, but in the long run each must learn to do his own work, and “sin” no more, lest a worse thing befall him.”

— Emmet Fox

81. “The truth is that the Will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, wider and newer and brighter experience; better health, greater prosperity, wider opportunity of service to others – life more abundant.”

— Emmet Fox

82. “Indignation, resentment, the desire to punish other people or to see them punished, the desire to “get even,” the feeling “it serves him right” – all these things form a quite impenetrable barrier to spiritual power or progress.”

— Emmet Fox

83. “Conduct, your hour-by-hour thinking, produces specific conditions, and may be thought of as the weather of your soul.”

— Emmet Fox

84. “Whatever you experience in your life is really but the out picturing of your own thoughts and beliefs.”

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85. “Your Mental Conduct, your hour-by-hour thinking, produces specific conditions, and may be thought of as the weather of your soul. Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter are seldom changed and may be called the climate of the soul, and it is these that mold your destiny.”

— Emmet Fox

86. “The highest of all forms of prayer is true contemplation, in which the thought and the thinker become one. This is the unity of the mystic, bit it is rarely experienced in the earlier stages. Pray in whatever way you find easiest; for the easiest way is the best.”

— Emmet Fox

87. “If one is praying every day, as he should, for enlightenment and guidance, the one certain thing is that he will not go on holding to the same ideas as he grows older, but that he will be continually revising, enlarging, and expanding them. He will die daily, as the man he is, to be reborn bigger and wiser and better on the morrow.”

— Emmet Fox

88. “Don’t be content to let things drift along, hoping for the best. It is not spiritual to “put up” with inharmonious conditions. If the conditions of your life are not to your liking, you must get to work on your own consciousness and, by raising that above the outer picture, cause those conditions to become something nearer to your heart’s desire; and you must keep on doing this until you find your True Place.”

— Emmet Fox

89. “You experience life when you feel yourself to be free and useful and joyous, and unconscious of either fear or doubt.”

— Emmet Fox