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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or failure. read more
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may
defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the
fact because you think you are.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed read more
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its
efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool read more
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its
efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God
forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, read more
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.
