Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.
It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.