The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESA 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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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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