I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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