Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.
You can't out-perform your self-image.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
Act the part and you will become the part.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
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