"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me."
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"The living moment is everything."
"Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more."
"Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile."
"I'm not a great believer in self-help."
"Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth."
"To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody."
"We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment."
"God himself helps those who dare."
"The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves."
"Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result."
"What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!"