Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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