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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.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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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Destiny Military Spiritual
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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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Health Love Wings
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy

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