The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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.
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
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.
Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
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.
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.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
It is your friends who make your world.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
Act the part and you will become the part.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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