Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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