In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
All limitations are self-imposed.
- Topic: Belief, Self
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Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that’s more terrible than dying—more terrible than dying young.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.
Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
