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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

William James

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

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