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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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