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• Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

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  Attitude, Reality, Possibility

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• When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on the self-motivator: Success is achieved by those who try and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude. This is the way to avoid being crushed.

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  Attitude, Successful, Loss

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• Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

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  Attitude, One Day, Dissatisfaction

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• Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

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  Attitude, Negative, Lucky

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• You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

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  Disappointment, Attitude, Profit

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• Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.

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  Love Life, People, Joy

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• You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

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  Mind, Desire, Burning

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• Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

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  Book, Divine Guidance, Light

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• Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

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  Adversity, Opportunity, Sometimes

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• Don't blame God for your lack of success.

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  Blame

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• Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

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  Powerful, Attitude, Mind

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• PMA is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. NMA repels them. It is a negative mental attitude that robs you of all that makes life worth living.

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  Beautiful, Attitude, Negative

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• A man of 25 has before him some 100,000 working hours should he retire at 65. How many of your working hours will be alive with the magnificent force of positive mental attitude? And how many of them will have the life knocked out of them with the stunning blows of negative mental attitude?

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  Attitude, Blow, Men

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• Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

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  Important, Persons

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• If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.

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  Want, Way, Knows

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• Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.

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  Unseen, Looks, Way

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• We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude toward ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

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  Attitude, Reality, Riches

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• Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

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  Believe, Negative, Use

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• Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

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  Prayer, Lying, Men

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• We are masters, first, of our attitudes. Our attitudes shape our future. This is a universal law.

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  Attitude, Law, Shapes

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• Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

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  Fun, Goal, Effort

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• With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.

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  Attitude, Adversity, Benefits

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• Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

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  Greatness, Goal, Desire

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• To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.

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  Practice, Experts, Achiever

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• Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

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  Adversity, Benefits, Seeds

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