Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.
