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"Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them."
"No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!"
"Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end."
"Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."
"A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition."
"The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked."
"Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean."
"You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed."
"A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them."
"One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success."
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
"If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own."
"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats."
"Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire."
"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 recognize failure, will bring riches."
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."
"You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out."
"You can do it if you believe you can."
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."
"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."