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The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
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Before success comes in any mans life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
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Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
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The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.
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An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.
Napolean Hill,
Think and Grow Rich
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self
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Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.
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I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
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We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
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To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
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Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
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There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.
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One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.
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Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
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Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
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TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.
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Youve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.
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Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".
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Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.
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Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.
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IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.
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If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work
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Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.
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The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
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Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.
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There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that Old Man Failure finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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both success and failure are largely the results of habit!
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Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.
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The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.
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knowledge is power. It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
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That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
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DREAMS ARE THE SEEDLINGS OF REALITY.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
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faith removes limitations!
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the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.
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The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan."And"A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.
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If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.
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The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
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Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.
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If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
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Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
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Let us consider the power of FAITH, as it is now being demonstrated, by a man who is well known to all of civilization, Mahatma Gandhi, of India. In this man the world has one of the most astounding examples known to civilization, of the possibilities of FAITH. Gandhi wields more potential power than any man living at this time, and this, despite the fact that he has none of the orthodox tools of power, such as money, battle ships, soldiers, and materials of warfare. Gandhi has no money, he has no home, he does not own a suit of clothes, but HE DOES HAVE POWER. How does he come by that power? HE CREATED IT OUT OF HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRINCIPLE OF FAITH, AND THROUGH HIS ABILITY TO TRANSPLANT THAT FAITH INTO THE MINDS OF TWO HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE. Gandhi has accomplished, through the influence of FAITH, that which the strongest military power on earth could not, and never will accomplish through soldiers and military equipment. He has accomplished the astounding feat of INFLUENCING two hundred million minds to COALESCE AND MOVE IN UNISON, AS A SINGLE MIND. What other force on earth, except FAITH could do as much? There will come a day when employees as well as employers will discover the possibilities of FAITH. That day is dawning. The whole world has had ample opportunity, during the recent business depression, to witness what the LACK OF FAITH will do to business.
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A quitter never winsand a winner never quits.
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Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through opinions and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule.
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The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.
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He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.
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Success come to those who become success conscious.
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no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
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Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.
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