“We call it “getting into a rut,” which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.”
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“This power is made up of the principles described in this book. In the story of the Declaration of Independence it will not be difficult to detect at least six of these principles: DESIRE, DECISION, FAITH, PERSISTENCE, THE MASTER MIND and ORGANISED PLANNING.
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“Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.”
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“It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.”
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“Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.”
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“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
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“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.”
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“A positive mind finds a way it can be done. A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”
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“affliction was not a liability, but an asset of great value.”
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“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought.”
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“no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty”
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“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. The finishing point is that brand of KNOWLEDGE which leads to understanding-understanding of self, understanding of others, understanding of the laws of Nature, recognition and understanding of HAPPINESS.”
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“The person who stops studying merely because he or she has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what that person’s calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
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“Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one’s chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.”
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