“no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
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“Keep your eyes and ears wide open— and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision.”
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“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
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“We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice.”
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“You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.”
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“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.”
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“No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes
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“If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. Never, in the history of America has there been so great an opportunity for practical dreamers as now exists.
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“I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.”
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“The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver.”
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“There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit”
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“Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.”
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“Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.”
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“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”
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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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