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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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