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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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You give before you get.
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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.