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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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