Claude M. Bristol Quotes

United States, Writer
1891 – 1951.

Born 1891, Claude M. Bristol served as a soldier in WW1 in France and Germany. He worked on the army newspaper, Stars and Stripes until 1919. His best known book is The Magic of Believing, published in 1948, which has sold well over a million copies, and is widely regarded as a prosperity classic.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Claude M. Bristol
- Game
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Claude M. Bristol
- Believe
- Thinking

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Claude M. Bristol
- Effort
- Obstacles
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Claude M. Bristol
You have to think big to be big.

Claude M. Bristol
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

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- Good
- Achievement
We usually get what we anticipate.

Claude M. Bristol
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

Claude M. Bristol
- Done

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Claude M. Bristol
- Gold
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Claude M. Bristol
- Trust