“Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted.”
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“Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognise failure, will bring riches.”
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“You are more apt to “rust” out your brain from disuse than you are to wear it out from use. You can do it if you believe you can.”
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“until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
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“the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.”
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“Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.”
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“Find at least one person each day, and more if possible, in whom you see some good quality that is worthy of praise, and praise it. Remember, however, that this praise must not be in the nature of cheap, insincere flattery; it must be genuine. Speak your words of praise with such earnestness that they will impress those to whom you speak. Then watch what happens. You will have rendered those whom you praise a decided benefit of great value to them,”
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“Psychologists have correctly said that “when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.”
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“time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth.
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“But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.”
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“Money is as shy and elusive as the “old time” maiden.”
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“It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.”
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“More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”
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“TO do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination without distraction. -Thomas A. Edison.”
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