There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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