They who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
JAMES ALLENYour 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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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice, he ascends.
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He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.
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Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
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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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The lazy man does the hardest work.
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Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
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Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
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The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes.
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A man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
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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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Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
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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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You will be what you will to be.
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