A man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
JAMES ALLENNot what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.
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Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
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A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice, he ascends.
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The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.
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Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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If you would protect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
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The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
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The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become.
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No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
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He that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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They themselves are makers of themselves.
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You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. 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 realities.
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A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
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The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
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The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.
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