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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
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It is always your next move.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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